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Kwidzyn
Quality Environmental Protection

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"Agenda 21 Strategy for Sustainable Development of Kwidzyn" is not one of many documents that are ‘put on a shelf and waiting for better times', but stands for a dynamic social and economic process implemented in the city. Many issues and social problems included in the program are being solved by NGOs and special emphasis is placed on improving the quality of municipal companies' work, whose services affect the quality of local residents' life, to mention the quality of potable water, heating, cleanness in the city and air.
Waste Treatment Plant and Waste Management
In 1998, on the initiative of city authorities, a Waste Treatment Plant was established, which today provides waste selection and collection services to almost all Kwidzyn County. The Waste Treatment Plant has assumed certain basic tasks, which include: closing and rehabilitation of the existing landfill in Bądki, the implementation of a waste selection program in the municipalities of Kwidzyn County, and the construction of a cutting edge landfill in Gilwa Mała. The plant has consistently implemented and expanded the waste selection program. It has placed in different parts of the city more than 700 containers for selective collection of paper, glass and plastics. Selective collection program also includes hazardous waste, such as old batteries, fluorescent lamps and expired drugs. As a result, service life of the existing landfill in Bądki has been expanded, which will in turn allow for efficient use of the landfill in Gilwa Mała that is currently being built. The new landfill will be a state-of-the-art treatment plant meeting all EU requirements. The landfill will serve all Kwidzyn County residents, but this is the City that makes largest investment outlays in its construction.

Urząd Miejski
ul, Warszawska 19,
82-500 Kwidzyn
tel. (055) 279 42 31,
fax (055) 279 20 23
www.kwidzyn.pl
Centrum Edukacji Ekologicznej
tel. (055) 279 22 16

Heat Generating Plant - Activities on behalf of the Protection of Air
Kwidzyn Heat Generating Plant has placed emphasis on quality. In 2001, the company was awarded PN-EN ISO 9001:2000 Certificate. The Plant's major goal is meeting the requirements of existing and future customers regarding the provision of heat, which is safe, reliable and friendly to the environment. Within its modernization process and the expansion of heat distribution network in Kwidzyn, the Plant closed 24 coal-fueled local boiler houses.
Kwidzyn Water and Sewage Company Spółka z o.o. - Investments in Improving the Quality of Potable Water and Protection of the Liwa River
The main task of Kwidzyn Water and Sewage Company Sp. z o.o. is the provision of potable water to local residents and businesses as well as municipal and industrial sewage management. In order to improve the quality of potable water, a new Water Purification Plant has been built in Kamionka near Kwidzyn and Water Purification Plant in Kwidzyn has been modernized. Total investment costs amounted to approx. PLN 15 mln. As a result, water quality parameters meet all EU standards.
The Company transfers municipal and industrial waste via a pumping station in Kwidzyn to the water treatment plant of International Paper - Kwidzyn S.A. An old sewage treatment plant in Kwidzyn, which discharged effluent to the Liwa River, was modernized and transformed into the pumping station and discharge pipe that transports sewage to the International Paper Company's treatment plant.
All improvements introduced in Kwidzyn's municipal companies have been made in order to improve local residents' quality of life and economic condition and to ensure them their right to live in clean environment. Thanks to the cooperation of municipal companies and the implementation of the Kwidzyn's sustainable development program, the activities taken so far have already brought positive results, i.e. local residents are provided with quality potable water and actively engaged in the performance of ecological mission by selecting waste, for example.