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Romanian-Bulgarian cross-border project to fight floods and water pollution
More than 550,000 people in the Giurgiu (southern Romania) - Ruse (northern Bulgaria) border region will benefit starting on Friday of a warning system using sirens, and of boats and vehicles for interventions in the event of floods or accidental water pollution, as a Romanian-Bulgarian common project to this effect has been completed.
'This ‘Common actions for emergency management in hydrological and weather-related events and in cases of accidental water pollution' project is the latest in a series of eight projects implemented within the Romanian-Bulgarian Cross-Border Programme, completed today with our Bulgarian partners,' project manager Despina Oprea said at a press conference on Friday.
She mentioned that this project has built an efficient warning system, by purchasing and installing horns in Giurgiu County (southern Romania). It also allows generating flood hazard maps in the cross-border Giurgiu-Ruse region. Acquisitions of boats and specific vehicles also resulted in an increased capacity of intervention and rescue.
'Now the Ruse firemen are the best equipped in the whole country, as the result of these projects, (...) and the transfrontier collaboration in [the region of] Giurgiu-Ruse has become an example of good practice in this field,' Bulgarian project manager Valentin Krasnaliev declared on Friday in Giurgiu.
The closing of the common intervention project in the border region has been also attended by the chief of the Giurgiu Inspectorate for Emergency Situations Emil Apostol, Giurgiu County public administrator Dumitru Beianu and representative of the Danubius Euroregion Lili Ganceva.