OREANDA-NEWS. November 09, 2009. Azersu says that the discussion will be linked with environment impact assessment of the project. In the course of the meeting it will be presented information about fulfilled woks.

The meeting will be organized at 3 pm on 12 November 2009 in the Azersu’s main building (67, Heydar Aliyev Avenue; Assembly Hall, Floor 5).

Tel: (012) 431-47-87 (315), (050) 765-52-91

Contact person: Shamil Ismaylov.

Within the project a discharging tube to be built with capacity of 800,000 liquid waste a day is able to accept no more than 400,000 cu m a day.

Earlier national operator of watersupply and sewage systems in Azerbaijan, Azersu OJSC defined the scheme of construction of deep-water sewage runoffs from Hovsan aeration station into the Caspian Sea.

New 8 km-long sewer is planned to be built, the 1 km of which will be laid in the earth and 7 km on the sea floor.

The sea depth in this place makes 8m, because an underwater mountain ridge formed here after the Baku earthquake, which occurred in 2000. The World Bank (WB), as financing side, does not object against this scheme, but requires its more serious grounding.

Earlier government source said that the issue will be clarified finally in the course of upcoming evaluation of the project. Initially there were considered some options – to extend a waste channel via the old line or lay a new channel line offered via some routes as well.

Options of drain pipe laying out of the line of Baku Bay or much further were covered as well. Eventually it was decided to lay a discharge pipe via the old route but further into the sea and finish the process of recultivation of outflows by basin self-purification mechanisms.

Different options demanded diverse expenditures on the project. The consultants on project feasibility study (the alliance of France’s Seurega (a subsidiary of Veolia) and Azerbaijan’s ASPI) have already launched their work.

The decision to finance this project can be made by the WB Board of Directors as early as in 2010 fiscal year (it starts since July 2009).

According to his preliminary estimate, the project will cost approximately USD 100-150 million.

Within the project sewage cleaning line with capacity of 2.5 cu m per sec should be laid into the sea by 12 kilometers at the depth of at least 30 m. That is the most optimal version in respect to Caspian hydrology and environmental self-cleaning perspectives.