The new Tetovo water pipeline, which was built for two decades, had a lot of flaws

The new Tetovo water supply system put into service two years ago is rarely used. It is a system that is supplied from surface waters, i.e. from the rivers Penja and Leshnička Reka, built on Sharplani steep terrain, where there are often erosion processes.

The water from this water supply is either cloudy or absent due to frequent system failures, or the citizens receive proper drinking water, but with a changed taste and smell.

According to the Tetovo Public Utility Company, it is common for the water from the new water pipe to become cloudy after every heavy rain, because it is a system that is supplied from surface water, which is then purified in a filter station.

But if it is an enormous turbidity, the station cannot purify the water and automatically shuts itself off.

Doctor Ratko Davidovski, a specialist in hygiene and health ecology, says that there is a solution to the turbidity of water. Before it enters the city's water system, it can be purified by installing sedimentation tanks in the rivers themselves, from which the water supply is supplied with water.

"This can be overcome by having a precipitator with coagulation or without coagulation in the river itself from where we are supplied with water. Coagulants can be sodium sulfate, ferric sulfate, copper sulfate. There are several types of sedimentation tanks, but most often it is a sedimentation tank with partitions and when we have turbidity, sedimentation occurs, it is a pre-treatment of the water, so that water goes to the filter station and that water is filtered. The sedimentation takes 3 to 6 hours by road by gravity and by chemical reaction, ie negative and positive ions. Precipitation occurs and then it is easy to bring the water to a safe state," says Dr. Davidovski.

Doctor Davidovski points out that there is a solution for the changed taste and smell of the water in the autumn period, which occurs as a result of the rotting of the leaves in Leshnička Reka, whose water is used by the new water supply.

"Even after the filtration, we can treat the water. It can be conditioned, we are talking about river water, and it is best to do it with ozonation. Technically it is difficult to do ozonation, but we subsequently say that water correction can also be done with activated carbon, before the water enters the filter station, that way we will get water without changed smell and taste", says Dr. Ratko Davidovski.

Dr. Davidovski says that as the Center for Public Health Tetovo they constantly give these recommendations to the authorities. However, for the time being, there are no announcements from the city authorities, nor from PUC Tetovo about their implementation.

The new water pipe will be used for the time being, only if the water in the river is clear.

Apart from clouding of the water, the new water supply system, which was built for two decades, also faces frequent breakdowns, especially in the winter period, which is why the people of Tetovo are left without drinking water.

From JKP Tetovo, they say that their teams are constantly on the Sharplanina terrain, where they perform controls on the new water supply system. From there, they hope that the water supply will be in good condition during the winter, there will be defects, but not on such a large scale.

The Mayor of Tetovo Bilal Kasami, recently stated that an analysis was made of the problems with the new water supply system, but without specifying how many and what kind of problems that analysis showed.

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