With practically 30,000 kilometres of rivers, rivers are bountiful in Slovenia. However over the last years, this riches of water has actually brought about reoccurring floodings. For instance, in November 2012 2 of the Drava container” s tributaries, the Mislinja and also the Meža, rupture their financial institutions, ruining areas, roadways and also manufacturing facilities.
Nevertheless, considering that 2014 a European job is attempting to decrease the threat of these rivers flooding.
The job intends to boost security around both rivers in metropolitan, commercial and also farming locations.
Its overall budget plan is 25 million euros. 3 countless which were given by Slovenia’s nationwide public utility. 80% of the remainder was funded by the EU communication plan and also 20% by Slovenia.
In Pameče, the river has actually been dug up, its bed expanded and also its financial institutions recovered. Andrej observed the damaging flooding 9 years earlier and also commends the sustainability of particular remedies, like these rocks that are purposefully put when it comes to flooding.
Andrej Breznik is a city councelor in Slovenje Gradec. He assumes that what they have actually done to secure the surrounding location from flooding is both cosmetically pleasing and also well done. He is especially delighted that fish were taken into consideration. “They have actually placed these rocks in position to make sure that they can conceal”, he clarified whilst revealing us the riverbed.
Simply a couple of kilometres later on from Pameče, the centuries-old ironworks called SIJ Steel Ravne generates in between 70 and also 80 000 lots of steel a year. Its steel is exported throughout the globe. It was extremely almost swamped in 2012.
To create steel the manufacturing facility requires water from the Meza, a hefty river in a slim valley. There is no other way to expand its bed in this field. That is why various other remedies needed to be located after the 2012 flooding.
Nikolaj Sonjak a technological supervisor at the ironworks clarifies that the method to secure the location from floodings was to tame the river. To this end, “the riverbed was established, control wall surfaces were improved both financial institutions, high-voltage line were increased and also the 100-year flooding degrees were thought about”. According to him, this job has actually avoided an unfavorable influence on the plant’s procedures.
Prepare for the building and construction of a storage space tank upstream of the Meza are underway. It is anticipated to consist of a circulation law system with a dam to assist secure the location from more floodings.
