For the regulation of waste water in the valley Šaleška dolina 1.6 million from the Cohesion Fund
Government Office for Local Self-Government and Regional Policy issued a decision on the allocation of EU funds for the project of the arrangement of collection and treatment of wastewater in the valley Šaleška dolina. The project worth approximately 3 million Euros is part of the Operational Programme of Environmental and Transport Infrastructure for 2007-2013 and will be financed from the Cohesion Fund in the amount of 1.68 million Euros.
In the framework of the project, which will be completed in December 2014, the construction of one pumping station and 8 kilometres of sewage in the municipalities Velenje and Šoštanj is foreseen. With the implementation of the project 616 inhabitants will be connected to the public sewage system.
The upgrading of the sewage, which will be connected to an existing sewage system and the existing treatment plant central Šoštanj, will also ensure waste water treatment. With the construction of the sewage system will reduce the amount of harmful substances in water and improve the quality of surface water, which will improve living and health conditions of inhabitants in these municipalities.
The existing inadequate sewage system has a negative impact both on the underground water as well as the river Paka, and consequently the river Savinja and the valley Šaleška dolina. The construction or upgrading of the sewage system and its connection to the existing system will provide for the collected waste water to be treated at a central treatment plant. Thus, the treated water will be drained into the river Paka which will also affect the quality of the river Savinja, because today all untreated municipal waste water is drained directly into the river Paka and then the river Savinja.
Resources of the Operational Programme of Environmental and Transport Infrastructure are primarily intended to upgrade or construct new infrastructure in the field of environment and transport, to a lesser extent also for projects in the field of sustainable energy.
