Dorin Chirtoaca: It looks as if governors like unpleasant smell from water treatment station and want Chisinau residents to breathe it in

“We are implementing a simple technology with no negative ecological impact,” the director of SA Apa-Canal Chisinau (ACC) Constantin Becciev said on Wednesday, while Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca was paying a visit to the water treatment station in Chisinau. The mayor traveled to the station after the State Ecological Inspectorate and the Chisinau Ecological Agency suggested suspending the mud draining project until new ecological and sanitary examinations are carried out, Info- Prim Neo reports. “It is a temporary work during which we use geotubes to dry the mud. Until present, we did this in open air and the process lasted for a year or a year and a half. Now it takes one month to drain the mud,” Constantin Becciev said, adding that the water supplier received the Ecological Inspectorate’s authorization last year. The project is assessed at 9 million lei. This money was allocated by the Chisinau Municipal Council. The ACC intends to use this draining method until money is found to reconstruct the water treatment station. The company’s administration says that the next summer or autumn the unpleasant smell emitted by the station will not be felt in Chisinau anymore. “A sum of 50-100 million euros is needed to repair the station. This is the equivalent of the Chisinau budget. We do not have this money now,” Dorin Chirtoaca said. “We could have it if the Government did not abusively deprive us of about 30 million euros a year. If we had invested this money during two years, the problem would have been solved.” According to Chirtoaca, by erecting barriers to implementing this project, the Communist government does nothing but hinder the solving of a problem that they could not deal with appropriately. “It seems to me that the governors like the smell and want all the Chisinau residents to breathe it in,” Dorin Chirtoaca added. The president of the Chisinau Organization of the Ecologist Movement of Moldova Vladimir Garaba considers that the State Ecological Inspectorate’s actions are a politically motivated. “This mud draining method with the help of geotubes is an ecological and perfect solution to the unpleasant smell problem,” Garaba said. “This technology helps gradually reduce the quantity of mud that is fermented and that sends out different substances with greenhouse effect and pestilential smell. “Opposing this technology means preserving or worsening the present situation. The Inspectorate’s actions are illogical. In fact, it is a political move designed to demonstrate that the municipal authorities cannot fix this problem without the Government’s help,” Vladimir Garaba said.