EU splashing out on vital Szczecin purification plant

Zł.70 million will go to the Siedlce company itself. "Our task will be general construction activities, while our partners will provide technology. We will start the work by the end of this year," said Polimex-Mostostal deputy president Aleksander Jonek. The projected deadline for the investment is the end of 2007. The plant is the biggest investment in the Szczecin area in the last few years. It is also the most expensive element of the "Improvement of Water Quality" program, on which the city will spend nearly EURO 290 million by the end of 2008. Most of the funds have come from EU sources. At the moment Szczecin is the only large city in the country without a big purification plant. (Parkiet, p. 3) A.F.