Prague: Reconstruction of the water supply network | Blesk.cz
Rent from PVK paid from water and sewage, PVS anticipates next year in the amount of 2.76 billion crownshe wants to get another 221 million crowns from subsidies from the Ministry of Agriculture. A deficit of about 361.2 million crowns according to the approved document, it is expected that some of the listed investments may not be completed next year.
Addition money from dividends also goes into infrastructure development, which PVS, as a representative of the capital, receives for a 49 percent stake in PVK. According to the recent statement of PVS director Pavel Válk, it amounts to 500 to 600 million crowns per year. The agreement is that after 2028, when Veolia’s lease of the infrastructure ends, will buy out PVS and the remaining 51 percent in PVK and will provide water distribution in the metropolis itself.
Vinohrady, Řepy, Holešovice
The largest planned investment is reconstruction of the old water line of the Central Wastewater Treatment Plant on Císařská ostrov for approximately six billion crowns. PVS plans to issue a tender in January for the company that will carry out the work, but the work is still expected to start next year. At the same time, the city invested in the construction of a new line, which was put into trial operation in 2018 and put into operation in January this year.
From the newly started constructions, PVS wants to invest in, for example, next year renewal of water supply lines in Řepy, Vinohrady or Veletržní Street in Prague 7, for which she set aside 30 million crowns each. Hundreds of millions are to go towards the continuation of the reconstruction of the Káraný water treatment plant, 119 million are to go to the flood protection of the sewage system in Karlín, which is already under construction. In total, the company listed around 250 investments in the overview.
Dark as in a sack, musty odor, strange mushrooms sprouting on the walls and a sharp stream at the level of the Vltava riverbed. This is what the oldest trunk sewer leading under the Letenská plain looks like. David Winter
Prague will spend billions on the reconstruction of the network of water lines. (illustrative photo)
Author: Alexandr Malachovsky