The municipal solid waste landfill on Kholmistaya Street in Vladivostok was visited by Oleg Kozhemyako, Governor of Primorsky Krai, on a working visit. The regional head had previously visited the site and criticised the environmental condition of the facility: a black, foul-smelling liquid—a mixture of landfill leachate and stormwater runoff from the landfill—was seeping through the soil barrier and flowing into Amur Bay. The leachate is now directed into special settling ponds and from there into a modular wastewater treatment plant. The contractor installed it within a tight timeframe—just three months.
Six similar water treatment plants have already been installed across the country; the one at the Vladivostok landfill is the seventh. This equipment can purify contaminated liquids to the quality of distilled water, making them completely safe for the environment. A similar plant has been installed at the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill to treat supernatant water from sludge storage ponds.
Ivan Yerogin, head of the water treatment equipment manufacturer: "The work was completed within a very tight timeframe. There was a separate request from the Minister of Housing and Utilities and a separate request from the Governor, so we worked very promptly. Many components had to be delivered by air.
The equipment has already been installed and is undergoing commissioning and trial runs. Three different independent laboratories collected samples of the treated water. The result is encouraging: the experts concluded that it could even be used for drinking.
Elena Parkhomenko, Deputy Chair of the Government of Primorsky Krai: "The waters of our bay, which is popular with tourists and residents, will now be much cleaner. The landfill will no longer have such a negative impact".
Based on materials from: OTV television company.
