Works to build foundation for tanks of treatment facilities begin at the Port Bronka
Workers began pouring concrete foundation for tanks of treatment facilities at the construction site of the Multipurpose Marine Cargo Complex (MMPK) "Bronka", Big Port St. Petersburg, the port project investor Fenix LLC said.
The facilities will be treating domestic wastewater and surface runoffs. Contractors have completed works to prepare piles field for industrial buildings and tanks of treatment facilities. Workers prepared foundations for three stabilization tanks, with the volume of 5,000 cbm each. Also lean concrete and gird have been completed of footing of stabilization tank No 2 concrete casting of bottom of tank No 1 (diameter - 30 m).
The treatment facilities will include: three storage tanks of capacity of 5,000 cmb each; 2 buildings of sewage treatment plants and drainage water; 2 classifiers of sediment.
Completion of the treatment plants is scheduled for August 2015, a month before the ribon-cutting ceremony for new Port Bronka.
Since there was no sewage collector of "Vodokanal" at the site, the scope of works included the construction of treatment facilities to ensure environmental standards and safety of the MMPK Bronka operation.
For treatment of domestic wastewater resulting from the operation of the port contractors applied the most modern treatment solution, a technology of membrane bioreactor (MBR), which guarantees to provide the desired degree of treatment of domestic sewage before it is discharged into water body.
To clean the surface wastewater resulting from the operation of the object a multi-stage purification technology has been applied, which is based on the averaged flow, sedimentation of surface waters, followed by a three-stage cleaning of averaged flow by flotation and filtration through settling and sorption filters.
The well-proven technology was chosen as its is in full compliance with regulatory requirements. The project MMPK "Bronka" has successfully passed environmental impact assessment and received a positive conclusion, as well as the public examination of project documentation.
The Marine Multipurpose Complex Bronka (MMPK Bronka) is being built on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, in the place where the dam and the ring road border the territory of Lomonosov. The Bronka Complex will comprise three specialized facilities: a container terminal encompassing 107 hectares, Ro-Ro terminal of 57 ha and logistics center of 42 ha. Container terminal will feature the 1.176 m-long waterfront (including 5 berths). The waterfront of rolling cargo terminal will be 630 meters (3 berths). The Bronka Phase 1 capacity is projected to be 1.45 million TEUs and 260,000 units of Ro-Ro cargoes. The facility’s container throughput is planned to be increased to 1.9 million TEUs. The Bronka Multipurpose Complex will be able to handle Panamax containerships and the ferries of Finnstar class. Private investors are expected to inject nearly RUB 43.7 billion in the project with the Russian Government investment at some RUB 15.2 billion. Implementation of the Bronka project is expected to help generate 2,300 jobs at sea terminals alone. Upon completion of the outer harbor facilities annual direct tax payments to the budget of St. Petersburg will be at RUB 1.7 billion (plus indirect tax due to a multiplier effect – RUB 5.1 bn), the federal budget will get RUB 2.0 billion a year (RUB 5.9bn).
