The contract for a very important project to be implemented by our Ministry and in particular by the Department of Water Development, concerning the restoration of uncontrolled waste disposal in the area of Kotsiatis, was signed a short while ago.
As you know, this site has been closed since 2019, we ought to have closed it a decade earlier, the truth is, and right now we have the obligation to restore it and bring it back to its previous state.
So, we consider it a very important project both for environmental reasons and for public health reasons and for groundwater protection reasons.
It is a priority project that is part of the President's programme of governance and it is planned that most of its implementation will start and progress during the President's term of office.
The duration is 24 months, with the prospect that if some measurements confirm that there is biogas available from the area that will be restored, it will be exploited with an additional project of another 18 months duration.
Note that the budget amounts to almost 13 million of which 85% comes from the Cohesion Fund (European funds) and the remaining 15% comes from national budgets.
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