Water filtration plant in Mykolaiv to determine water quality

By the end of 2025, a modern filtration plant is to be launched at the water supply system in Mykolaiv. Its key feature is full automation of the water treatment and quality control process.

This became known in an ICTV story about the construction of a water supply system in the city.

<b>Oleksandr Kolomiytsev</b>, Head of Infrastructure Restoration and Development, explained the main idea: "The system will determine which reagents need to be added to ensure that the water is of the quality that meets the state standards of Ukraine." The station will also be able to automatically take water samples to determine its safety.

However, despite the introduction of a high-tech treatment system, there are still significant concerns. The cleanest water from the filters is contaminated when it enters the existing municipal water supply system. Vodokanal Mykolaiv admits that the quality of the water in the pipes currently "leaves much to be desired," which poses a problem for the ultimate efficiency of the new water supply system.

The new water supply system is 67 kilometers long and takes water directly from the Southern Bug River. The system consists of two lines with a total capacity of 120 thousand cubic meters of water. The first line is already completely filled with water, while the second is currently being pumped.

Kim explained that at the first stage, the water from the new water supply system will be mixed with water from Ingulets. This is necessary to flush the old city pipes. The process of fully upgrading the system and tangibly improving the water quality may take about four months. This is much faster than the initial forecasts, which envisaged a timeframe twice as long. Residents will notice a gradual improvement in the quality of their drinking water.

The new water supply system will ensure a stable supply of treated water for more than 500,000 residents of Mykolaiv who have been experiencing a shortage of quality drinking water since May 2022. In April 2022, Russian troops destroyed a water pipeline supplying water from the Dnipro River. As a result, the city was left without water supply, and later the network was supplied with salt water from the estuary, and then with river water of poorer quality.

Катерина Глушко