Client: Euroconsulting SA
Year: 2001
ISSUE
The purpose of the study was the environmental impact assessment and the approval of Environmental terms for the construction of an Industrial Park in the private area of Makedoniki Paper Company for the installation of enterprises and companies with commercial activities and also industries which cause low or medium disturbance in the surrounding area.
SOLUTION
View of the industrial park
The project area is located between the communities of Gefira and Agios Athanasios next to the intersection of National Thessaloniki-Efzonoi Road and the National Thessaloniki-Edessa highway. It is located specifically on the 22nd km of Thessaloniki-Halkidona-Veroia highway, after the intersection of National Highway of Katerini-Yugoslavia.
The area is approximately 750 hectares and is bordered on the north by the roadway that links the villages of Kato Gefira and Agios Athanasios, after following some parcels and the road of Thessaloniki- Chalcedon-Veroia.
The following works are planned to be constructed:
• Roadway construction works: construction of new roadways, improvement of existing roadways and street lighting.
• Water Supply and fire protection works: construction of water tanks for water supply and storage.
• Sewerage works: construction of sewerage and stormwater networks and a wastewater treatment plant using the activated sludge method with extended aeration and nitrification-denitrification.
• Railway works: construction of a platform and supply-installation of a crane in order to utilize the existing industrial railway that cuts across the industrial area, connected to the national railway network.
• Construction of a new electrical grid substation.
In the current study, the exact locations for the construction of the works were identified and the existing condition of the natural and human environment was examined. Additionally, the feasibility of the works was demonstrated and a technical description of the works was performed.
Finally, the environmental impact from the construction and operation of the works was described and the mitigating actions during construction and operation phases were provided.
BENEFIT
The project was submitted to the environmental public authority for the approval of location of the Environmental Terms of the proposed works.