On Wednesday, the Vilnius Council determined to approve the proposal for the municipality to take over the dam and hydroelectric energy plant situated on the Vokė river in Grigiškės.
As written within the draft of the council’s choice, “The Vilnius Metropolis Municipality Council decides to oblige the administration of the Vilnius Metropolis Municipality to buy actual property belonging to the Vilnius Metropolis Municipality from the proprietor by means of unannounced negotiations”.
These issues are a hydroelectric energy plant and a dam, in addition to {an electrical} switchboard and a transformer.
Removing is important for a lot of causes
This draft agenda merchandise doesn’t specify what’s subsequent for the bought buildings, however the explanatory letter of the choice gives various explanation why the Grigiškii hydrotechnical constructions have to be eliminated.
Initially, the Grigiški dam damages the ichthyofauna – “fish migration within the river is proscribed, the unnatural fluctuation of the water degree brought on by the dam additionally negatively impacts the habitats of precious fish species and the survival of the fish themselves, particularly juveniles, migrating fish lose their manner after they encounter the dam and stops spawning.”
It’s also indicated that the group of Grigiškių Vokė has been combating the results of hydroelectric energy for a few years and is making an attempt to attract the eye of the authorities to the issues brought on by the Grigiškių Dam: “The group of Grigiškių Vokė states that the Grigiškių Dam has negatively modified the basin of the Vokė River, which has modified the river mattress, panorama, the river basin has dried up, began to turn out to be swampy, the biosystem of the river basin has modified.”
It’s stated that various salmon and smolt fry had been launched into the Vokė river, the breeding, rearing and switch of which had been paid for by the state funds. Nonetheless, grown-up fish can’t overcome the dam to spawn, and the fluctuation of the water degree within the Vokė River is alleged to be disastrous for fish eggs and fry.
The municipality additionally factors out that “the proprietor doesn’t adjust to the obligatory directions of the Environmental Safety Division of the Vilnius Board of the Trakai Environmental Safety Inspectorate, the proprietor misplaced the case concerning the cleansing of the Grigiškii pond”.
As well as, in response to the Vilnius metropolis municipality, the proprietor of the Grigiškių dam was obliged to spend money on riverbed dredging and pond cleansing, however didn’t accomplish that.
Owned by a personal firm
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2024-06-08 03:00:33