New sewage system for Kolm-Saigurn – salzburg.ORF.at
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The municipality of Rauris (Pinzgau) is renovating the sewage disposal system at the end of the valley near Kolm-Saigurn. The existing sewage treatment plant dates from the 1990s and is overloaded because the tourist infrastructure has improved and more and more guests are coming to Rauris.
The new channel will cost almost four million euros. The federal government supports the project and bears 37 percent of the costs. The owners of the huts and residential buildings along the new canal each pay connection fees.
The planners emphasize that the investment will pay off after 20 years. new canal More and more tourists and locals come to Kolm-Saigurn for hiking, ski touring and ice climbing. There used to be a biological sewage treatment plant at the head of the valley. The waste water from up to seven huts comes together here. On cloudy days that’s not much, on nice days it’s all about mass tourism.
Pipeline more than 13 kilometers long
The municipality of Rauris takes over the majority. Cast-iron pipes are laid over a length of 13.4 kilometers. The state of Salzburg also uses the complex dredging work to lay other lines, says Provincial Councilor Josef Schwaiger from the ÖVP: “We not only have the canal, but also an Internet connection and a water supply line as well as the kV line that goes underground. All this is very important due to tourist use. The wastewater disposal should also be the way we imagine it to be – that’s standard.”
Completion by the end of 2023
Fixed sanitary facilities at the parking lots will then also become standard. The new sewage pipes lead from the end of the valley to Rauris. There, the waste water is cleaned in the municipal sewage treatment plant. The canal is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2023.