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Historical oil contamination remediation is started in Ventspils

In July, in the territory of Ventspils former wastewater treatment plant complex “Ūdeka” and in the territory of the oil main pipeline route, the Ventspils Freeport Authority starts a remediation project to clean these sites from historical oil contamination and to stop further spread of it.

The project will clean up historically oil-contaminated sites by spring 2024, eliminating a source of pollution that poses significant risks to the Baltic Sea and its coasts as part of climate change, as well as to the health of the surrounding population.

The application of sustainable treatment technologies within the project will eliminate the fraction of free oil products in the soil massif of ​​the contaminated site and parallel with the Baltic Sea coastal zone will be installed a filtering-purification barrier system that will stop the migration of contaminated groundwater to the Baltic Sea, eliminating pollution risks.

In addition to remediation works, a public information campaign will be implemented in cooperation with the non-governmental sector, raising public awareness of current climate and environmental issues.

Ventspils Freeport Authority implements the project in cooperation with the Norwegian partner “International Development Norway AS” and the Latvian project partner “Ventspils High Technology Park”. The project implementation costs are 5,117,000 euros.

The project is implemented within the framework of the Norway Grants climate and environment programme Open call “Mitigation of Risks Related to Historically Contaminated Sites” managed by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development. Remediation works in historically contaminated sites within the framework of the Open call will also be performed by Daugavpils County Council and the Liepāja Special Economic Zone.

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