This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page This project will extend and modernise the water and wastewater infrastructure in Satu Mare county ensuring the country complies with obligations in the Accession Treaty and EU Directives for drinking water quality and wastewater treatment The project will ensure compliance with Directive 98/83/CE on the quality of water intended for human consumption It will increase connections to the water network ensure that the water provided meets legal standards and reduce water losses treatment plants and storage tanks to meet the county’s demand pumping and transport facilities are either outdated or inefficient the project will ensure compliance with Directive 91/271/CEE concerning urban wastewater treatment wastewater pumping stations installed and wastewater treatment plants will be built or extended there is insufficient network coverage and treatment capacity The project covers Satu Mare and the following communes The distribution network will be extended by 258.7 km Water mains totaling 175.9 km will be either built 36 pumping stations and 17 storage tanks will be built the project covers 15 agglomerations and towns: Satu Mare A total of 448.20 km of sewerage network and 133 km of pressure pipes will be laid Two wastewater treatment plants will be extended and three new ones built along with 301 wastewater pumping stations The project investment amounts to EUR 716 per capita for water supply infrastructure and EUR 1 802 for wastewater infrastructure Total investment for the project “Regional project for the development of water and wastewater infrastructure in Satu Mare county” is EUR 248 897 607 with the EU’s Cohesion Fund contributing EUR 165 450 961 through the “Large Infrastructure” Operational Programme for the 2014-2020 programming period The investment falls under the priority “The development of environmental infrastructure based on an efficient management of resources” Administratiei Publice si Fondurilor Europene The Republic of Moldova continues to be affected by its past artillery shells and other unexploded ordnance continue to litter the European nation’s territory creating a constant danger to the Moldovan population that one of the Moldovan military’s most important daily operations is to locate and remove these ancient It is unclear exactly how much unexploded ordnance remains buried beneath Moldovan land Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union created spheres of influence in Eastern Europe – an agreement that Berlin would later break via the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 Moscow gained control of parts of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina which became the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic After Operation Barbarrosa (Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union) commenced particularly the Red Army’s return to the region that most of this military equipment was littered across the territory Moldova remained part of the Soviet Union until its dissolution in the 1990s there was a short-lived internal war in 1992 which culminated in the separatist region of Transnistria achieving de-facto autonomy since it is unclear how much equipment was forgotten and buried during the war it is impossible to know when the Moldovan military can declare “mission accomplished.” The Moldovan Ministry of Defense (MoD) regularly reports the discovery and removal of mines, artillery shells and other unexploded ordnance from Moldovan territory, which gives us an idea of the scope of the problem.  For example, at the time of this writing over 1,800 explosive objects have been located and neutralized so far this year Let us now look at some specific operations and statistics to better understand the situation. The latest statistics provided by the MoD explain that in August alone military units carried out 32 mine-clearing operations across the country which resulted in the removal of 68 explosive artifacts The largest cache found were “29 artillery shells of different caliber discovered in the forest of the Nistrean park [close to a town called Vadul lui Voda] were from the period of the Second World War.” the ‘Codru’ Battalion was deployed to a city called Causeni in order to neutralize an 122 mm caliber  artillery projectile which was found by a group of workers near the local train station A major cache of ammo was located in late 2019,  when a group of workers who were carrying out drainage works near the town of Taraclia stumbled upon some projectiles Engineers of the ‘Dacia’ brigade were subsequently deployed and they removed a total of 307 76 mm caliber artillery projectiles It should be noted that since 1992 when the separatist war against Transnistria took place a total of 24 people have died and another 29 have been injured as a result of incidents with various types of ancient ammunition eight children died and six others were injured but its destructive legacy continues to exist in Moldova Since Moldova has a strong agricultural sector we can expect that the working of the land by Moldovan farmers in addition to infrastructure projects like repairing and expanding roads and railroads will unearth more caches of unexploded equipment in the near future the old explosives are transported to Bulboaca to be properly destroyed The United States has provided critically important assistance to the Moldovan army so that it can improve its capabilities with regards to mine-clearing operations. Case in point, in November 2019, an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Center was inaugurated in Moldova thanks to the support of the European Command (EUCOM) of the US armed forces The new facilities are located in Negresti In addition to the construction of the EOD center the US government donated to the Moldovan Army EOD equipment namely backpacks and 18 mine detectors.  Moreover the 2019 issue of To Walk The Earth Safety magazine published by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Political-Military affairs Through the State Partnership Program [EUCOM and the North Carolina National Guard] executed an EOD Level 1 train-the-trainer even with the Moldovan MOD Engineer Battalion and completed the first phase of a munitions depot upgrade at Floresti USEUCOM also partnered closely with PM/WRA [Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe] equipment and upgrades required for the site Department of State Bureau of Political-Military Affairs In other words, the US military remains an important ally of the European nation’s military for these operations. One unit in particular that deserves praise is the North Carolina National Guard, which teams up with Moldova as part of the State Partnership Program (see my June 2019 report for DefenceIQ on Moldova-North Carolina NG relations) Mine-clearing operations continue to occur around the world; in many cases these are legacies from recent or ongoing conflicts but there are also cases of countries and organizations performing mine-clearing operations in areas where conflicts occurred decades ago Vietnam is an example that often comes to mind but we can also mention how Chile is removing mines placed along its borders with Argentina and Peru during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990) several European countries continue to occasionally find World War II-era bombs (e.g Even the devastating explosions in Beirut are an example of the ever-present danger of not properly and timely handling explosive equipment since around 2,700 tonnes of ammonium nitrate had been in a hangar in Beirut’s port since 2013 as it has injured and claimed the lives of dozens of Moldovans since 1992 it is commendable the work that the Moldovan military carries out in a daily basis namely humanitarian mine-clearing activities across the country While we do not know when will the Moldovan military be able to claim “mission accomplished” when it comes to the removal of mines and other War-era equipment with the help of Moldova’s partners like the US the Moldovan armed forces get a little bit closer to that goal every day Wilder Alejandro Sanchez is an analyst that follows defense and geopolitical affairs in the Western Hemisphere and Post-Soviet regions The views expressed in this article belong the author alone and do not necessarily reflect those of any institutions with which the author is associated Insights from the world’s foremost thought leaders delivered to your inbox Reach Defence professionals through cost-effective marketing opportunities to deliver your message Join Defence IQ today and interact with a vibrant network of professionals keeping up to date with the industry by accessing our wealth of articles Contact Us | About Us Remus Tiplea photographs close-ups of damselflies in his back garden in Negresti Oas taking its network to a total of 355 stores is situated on 80 Tulcea Street and has a total area of 353.5 sqm with 203 sqm sales room The Negresti unit (Vaslui county), another Loco format, is on 23 Mihail Kogalniceanu Street. 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