Western Balkans Environment Programe

Commencement of the operation of  the Wastewater treatment plant in Mojkovac represents the completion of the first phase of works on the project "Remediation and Recultivation of the Mojkovac Lead and Zinc TMI". The construction of this modern facility was in part financed by the Government of Netherlands. Wastewater treatment plant in Mojkovac is a processing facility with most advanced processing technology in Montenegro and with capacity satisfying the needs of municipality for the next 15 years.

The second phase for the realization of the project "Remediation and Recultivation of the Mojkovac Lead and Zinc TMI" is in progress.

In the period from signing the contract on September 19, 2008 to November 20, 2008, the contracted company  completed the phase two of the planned activities defined by the  tender document and the  technical design for the project ""Remediation and Recultivation of the Mojkovac Lead and Zinc TMI"":

- Excavation of muddy material using excavation equipment with transportation to collection basket, mixing with additive (hydration lime), transport and disposal at temporary disposal location and when the process of solidification is completed, restitution of material to the area from which material was excavated. 

- Excavation of free dry material with: push towing, loading, transportation, unloading, spreading, fine placing of filing material for the cater on TMI, in order to fine place material and achieve planned and projected  geometry of TMI.

Activities were delivered in accordance with the Technical Design Project.

The value of the delivered works in the period from contract signing to November 20, 2008 was financed by the Government of Netherlands in the amount of  504,952.63 USD.

The continuous supervision of the delivery of all contracted works was done by the Directorate for Public Works with technical support provided by UNDP.