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Preparatory Survey on the Sewerage System Improvement Project for the City of Belgrade in Serbia
- Country
- Serbia
- Client
- Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
- Term of Project
- 2012 - 2013
Background
The Republic of Serbia is a landlocked country located in middle-western part of the Balkan Peninsula.
Belgrade City, the capital of Serbia, is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers. Most of
all the cities have sewerage systems and about 20 sewage treatment plants are in operation all over the
country. However, there is no sewage treatment plant in Belgrade City, and as a result untreated sewage
has been released into the Sava and Danube rivers.
Without improvement of said unpleasant sanitary condition, the source of water supply in Belgrade
including surface water and underground water will deteriorate,leading to health risk for the residents.
In Addition, Serbia has made EU accession as top priority of their policy. For EU accession, Serbia must
comply the EU regulations including installation of advanced sewage treatment facilities.
We conducted this comprehensive survey, supplementing with the past survey carried out by the city of Belgrade, to propose the optimal implementation plan of sewerage system for accelerating Serbia's EU accession.
Project Summary
In the first phase, we carried out the survey on the current situation and preparation of outline design of the implementation plan of sewerage system in Belgrade.
We carried out survey on the current situation on the sewerage sector of Belgrade, analyses on water
environment related issues and its causes, issues against improvement and management of sewerage system,
related law structure, and forecasted environmental and social impacts.
In addition, we invited the 10 members from the counterpart to Japan to improve their knowledge necessary
for technical consideration, to introduce various Japanese treatment facilities and technologies,
including biogas power generation technology, sludge-to-fuel technology, industrial wastewater treatment
technology, and advanced treatment technology.
In the second phase, we carried out consideration on the optimal implementation plan and checked project
impact.
We conducted the basic design, cost estimation, economic and financial analysis, studies on environmental
and social impact, operation and maintenance system, and capacity of the executing agency. Finally we
compiled above into a final report.
Project Gallery
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The City of Belgrade and the Danube River -
Sewage Flowing into the Sava River -
Sewer Pipe to Future Sewage Treatment Plant -
Bathing Area in the Sava River -
Observation of Existing Sewage Treatment Plant in Spotiza City -
Sewer Pipe to Future Sewage Treatment Plant -
Observation of Existing Pumping Station -
Pipeline Maintenance by Belgrade Waterworks and Sewerage (BVK)