A new wastewater treatment station could be erected in Ungheni town with foreign funds. The issue was discussed by the mayor of the town with the head of Iasi County in the ceremony held to launch the train route Chisinau – Iasi. It is a Moldovan-Romanian project that is only being discussed.

The treatment station working now in Ungheni could become nonfunctional in two-three years. The town’s authorities already have a pre-feasibility study, a project proposal that was formulated by Austrian experts. The costs for building the new station were assessed at €7.5 million.

“I had a meeting with the head of Iasi County Dan Carlan, with whom I discussed an acute problem – the building of a wastewater treatment station in Ungheni. Our station is in a very bad state and cannot be reconstructed. The solution is to build a new station,” mayor of Ungheni Alexandru Ambros has told IPN.

The mayor said that this is an acute problem both in Moldova and in Romania. “If we do not construct a new wastewater treatment station, we will have to release our residual waters into the Prut, which flows into the Danube. For its part, the Danube flows into the Black Sea. That’s why this is a regional problem,” he stated.

The two officials also discussed the possibility of a Romanian joint stock company supplying the left bank of the Prut with drinking water. A project to construct an underwater passageway from the Romanian side to the Moldovan side could be implemented near Macaresti. The project could be extended to cover the whole region along the Prut.