Water from two villages in Floresti will be decontaminated thanks to Moldovan-Czech project

The water in Lunga and Marculesti villages, Floresti district, polluted with oil products from the former Soviet airbase Marculesti, will be decontaminated thanks to a Moldovan-Czech project, Info-Prim Neo reports. The agreement memorandum was signed by Moldovan Minister of Environment Gheorghe Salaru and director of the Czech Development Agency Michal Pastvinsky. Gheorghe Salaru said that the water in the region was contaminated during the Soviet era, when several hundreds of tonnes of oil products were spilled from tanks and reached the underground waters. After the incident, the locals got buckets of oil instead of water from the wells. The project will be implemented between 2013 and 2015. Six treatment stations will be built: two on the airport territory and 4 on the land of Lunga village. The Czech Republic will support the project with €840,000. This is a continuation of the project “Remediating contamination with oil products from the former Soviet airbase Marculesti”, implemented in the first stage by Czech company Deconta, with the financial support of the Czech Development Agency, between 2010 and 2012. The first stage meant a detailed study of the contamination, testing the treatment technologies and installing 2 treatment stations.