Village council in Kherson region ordered water supply system repair for 750 thousand

The Velyko Oleksandrivka Village Council has taken the first step towards a large-scale reconstruction of the water supply system. An official contract was signed with a private enterprise to develop design and estimate documentation.

This is reported on the public procurement portal Prozorro.

It is a major overhaul of a strategically important water supply system - from the Zhdanivka water intake to the village of Velyka Oleksandrivka. The contract value is UAH 750,000, which will be allocated from the local budget. The procurement was conducted without the use of an electronic system, and the contractor was selected as a private enterprise, Profile-M, from Rivne.

According to the agreement, the development of technical documentation is to be completed by June 30, 2026, and the full cycle of work under this contract is expected to be completed by the end of 2026. Despite the significant amount of money, the contracting authority did not provide detailed technical specifications of the planned works in the report, which is usually an important part of monitoring the transparency of the use of budget funds.

In particular, the treatment plant for the new Mykolaiv water supply system is scheduled to be fully operational this month. According to Vasyl Telpis, technical director of Mykolaivvodokanal Vasyl Telpis, the works at the facility continue around the clock, which allows the general contractor to keep to the schedule and plan to launch the treatment facilities in March.

Earlier, Vitaliy Kim, the head of Mykolaiv's water utility, said that the contractor was supposed to build the treatment plant by the end of 2025, so clean water is expected to be available in the city's taps in the near future. The new network, which was laid from Nova Odesa, will have a capacity of 120,000 cubic meters per day, which will fully meet Mykolaiv's water supply needs.

It should be added that two water pipelines are being built for the city at once: one to replace worn-out internal networks and the other, a main water supply from the Southern Bug. Since the President set a goal to complete the construction in a short time, international partners refused to finance the project, so the funds were allocated from the reserve fund of the State Budget of Ukraine. This allowed the work to proceed three times faster than originally planned.

Катерина Глушко