The modernization of the wastewater treatment station in Chisinau could be financed from European funds, the Mayor General of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca announced at Tuesday’s meeting of the City Hall, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to the mayor, the issue was discussed at a meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) that considered the possibility of granting the money through a financial recovery plan. Chirtoaca asked officials of SA Apa-Canal Chisinau (ACC) to draft a decision whereby to ask for the money needed to purchase sacks for storing mud (geotubes), a temporary solution to the bad smell until a new station is built. The decision will be discussed at the first meeting of the Chisinau Municipal Council. It will be harder to obtain the money through the agency of other subdivisions like the Capital Construction Division. They will resort to raising the number of shares. ACC, as joint stock company, could directly contract to use the mud drying technology, without intermediaries, Dorin Chirtoaca said. The procedure also requires changing certain powers. For example, SA Apa-Canal will be the only one to renovate the piping systems, but the holes will be plugged and networks restored by companies that provide transportation and communication services, the mayor said. Vladimir Mocreac, the head of the Customer Relations Unit of ACC, sad that the project to modernize the Chisinau wastewater treatment station that was to be implemented by Apa-Canal Chisinau was stopped because there are no financial resources. Under the project, the mud from the wastewater treatment station will be put into geo-tubes of different sizes made from resistant textiles for dehydration. Specialists of the ACC said that this way the unpleasant smell of the mud will not be felt.