«Mykolaivvodokanal» is again trying to find a contractor for the reconstruction of the water supply in Korabelnyi district for ₴4.8 million

One of the sections of the waterworks reconstruction in Mykolaiv

The municipal enterprise «Mykolaivvodokanal» canceled the previous tender for the reconstruction of the water main on Bohoiavlenskyi Avenue in the Korabelnyi district of Mykolaiv. Currently, the contractor is being searched again.

This is evidenced by the data of the ProZorro public procurement system, NikVesti reports.

We that we are talking about the section of the pipeline from Novobudivna Street to Metalurgiv Street. However, the previous tender had to be canceled due to a violation of the deadline for answering questions from a potential participant. «Mykolaivvodokanal» also indicates that it was necessary to make changes to the draft contract, «which is still under development."

«Mykolaivvodokanal» plans to spend 4 million 843 thousand 37 hryvnias on the reconstruction of the specified part of the waterworks. In this section of the pipeline, pipes will be replaced and wells will be installed. Also, the tender documentation provides for the improvement of the territories on the specified site, the restoration of the asphalt-concrete surface, the arrangement of side stones and paving stones, which will be dismantled for the reconstruction.

In order to carry out the relevant works, the contractor will need to fell 3 softwood trees growing on the site of the water pipeline reconstruction.

All works must be completed by March 31 of this year. Mykolaivvodokanal will choose the winner at the auction on January 15.

What about the water in Mykolaiv?

Back in April 2022, Russian troops destroyed the water pipeline through which Mykolaiv received drinking water.

Previously, NikVesti wrote that the water in the taps of Mykolaiv residents is dangerous for consumption, as it contains enterococci, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, toxic elements, has an increased content of chlorides, sulfates, dry residue, etc.

More information about the dangers of using «technical» water for citizens and what awaits the city's residents in the future can be found in the «Mykolaiv. The city that holds the defense of the south suffers from thirst».

In March 2023, the director of Mykolaivvodokanal, Borys Dudenko, announced the possible threat of destruction of the sewage system due to the influence of salt water. According to him, over the past year, the water utility has eliminated more than 1,000 leaks, and after the start of the supply of salty water, the number of accidents per day has increased to 10-15 times. In addition, concrete sewer collectors also begin to degrade.

The European Investment Bank has approved additional credit financing of 20 million euros to improve water supply and drainage in Mykolaiv within the framework of the Municipal Infrastructure Development Program of Ukraine.

Earlier it was reported that 1.2 billion hryvnias are going to be allocated from the state budget for the restoration of the water supply system in Mykolaiv. Such a step is necessary for the city, since salt water corrodes the pipes and over time the entire water supply system will have to be changed in Mykolaiv.

At the same time, the head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration, Vitalii Kim , considers his team's decision to supply the city with salty technical water from the Southern Bug to be the right one after last April, as a result of Russian shelling, the water main from the Dnipro River was damaged.

The Vodokanal is considering six options for arranging a new water intake site to provide Mykolaiv with drinking water.

As you know, the search for an alternative source of water intake began in the summer of last year. At that time, the general director of the water utility Borys Dudenko talked about only a few options, where to get the amount of water necessary to fill the water supply system of our city and its 24-hour operation.

The first option is to go higher along the channel of the Southern Bug, choose a place with high-quality fresh water, build a water intake station there, lay a pipeline to Mykolaiv.

The second is to continue pumping water from the Dnipro-Bug estuary, but to install industrial-scale reverse osmosis units. Such installations are very energy-consuming.

On August 19, the department of urban planning, architecture, capital construction and support of development projects of Mykolaiv RMA announced tenders for the reconstruction of 12 sections of water mains damaged by salt water in different areas of the city for a total amount of 1 billion 348 million hryvnias.

Recently, the head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration, Vitalii Kim , announced the possible deterioration of water quality in the taps of Mykolaiv residents by the end of 2023.

At the same time, he believes that currently the water from the taps in Mykolaiv, which the townspeople consider technical, is better in terms of quality than «most water in Europe».