St Petersburg WWTW project restarted

Black and Veatch Consulting has begun work on a major water and wastewater project and new treatment works in St Petersburg, which will reduce pollution of Scandinavian beaches and coastal waters

Black and Veatch Consulting has begun work on the single most important environmental project in the Baltic.

The construction of a major new water and wastewater treatment works in St.Petersburg will bring a long awaited end to the pollution of several Scandinavian beaches and coastal waters - particularly in the Gulf of Finland - caused by untreated sewage from the city.

Originally designed back in 1983, the plant was partially built in 1991, but lost its funding when the former Soviet Union collapsed.

Attempts to restart construction in 1995 also failed.

Now, this first ever project in Russia for Black and Veatch Consulting Redhill headquarters in the UK, will see the company work in partnership with no fewer than 15 separate funding agencies as it seeks to overcome a whole series of financial, bureaucratic and technological challenges.

Initially, building of the 128M Euro St Petersburg WWTW will include a large number of repairs to existing, neglected structures.

As supervising engineer under complex Russian state legislation, Black and Veatch are first casting wider ring beams onto the near 50m diameter primary settlement tanks as a much needed strengthening measure to ensure that scraper bridge wheels remain on track.

When complete in July 2005, the new plant will serve a population of 750,000 in the south west of St Petersburg.

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