BALTIC SEAENVIRONMENT PROCEEDINGS No. 59 - Helcom

At Liepaja in some kind we have an unique situation for Latvia in
the process of problem solving because the financial support here
is given in several levels - international , national and
municipal. It covers the whole region of Liepaja coastal area and
having international character and going in Lithuanian territory
is supported by World Bank. This gives us a good practice in
planning financing technic too. In this case not only the waste
water treatment and oil combating are going to be solved but also
waste management, energetics and coastal area ecosystem
conservation problems.
As regards situation with wastewater treatment plants, there is
so named Phase II of the Riga wastewater treatment plants. This
hot spot has several non solved technical problems,for example,
Riga Centre District Wastewater Pumping Station, sewerage system
construction, unsolved rainwater problem and etc. This project is
supported by Sweden - Stockholm Waten (BITS). France is going to
take part in transformation of Riga municipal enterprises
according to rules of market economy.
It must be pointed out that lot of small towns in Latvia as well
as great number of Latvian enterprises established in the period
of unsustainable development are with warned-out and ineffective
wastewater treatment plants and all of them are waiting for
solution these items in nearest future if our goal is a better
environmental situation in the Gulf of Riga.
As we named the Liepaja as Hot Spot '93, the our Hot Spot '94 is
Daugavpils, the second greatest Latvian town on the River Daugava
coast near the Eastern boarder of Latvia. This hot spot as well
as all others very much needs the project proposal and solving of
problems similar to Liepaja hot spot in appropriate way. However,
Daugavpils is not situated on the Baltic Sea coast line. It
resulted in lack of financial resources for problem solving and
we are taking all possible efforts to change the attitude of
possible investors.
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