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Viimsi water management project completed

Today, on December 8, the Coastal Folk Museum in Viimsi will host an event for thanking the participants in the last project of the 2004–2006 structural fund programming period, Viimsi Water Management.

The total cost of the project that was completed with the help of the Cohesion Fund was approximately 14.1 million euros, and as a result, almost 5400 Viimsi residents are given an opportunity to join the services of public water supply and sewerage system.


According to Antti Tooming, the Head of the Project Bureau of the Water Department of the Ministry of the Environment, the aim is to ensure safe and clean drinking water and a possibility of joining public sewerage systems to the residents of all larger settlements  by the end of 2013. “The project that was completed today has provided this option to many residents of the Viimsi rural municipality and although this project is the last one of the 2004–2006 structural fund programming period, there are dozens of on-going water projects all across Estonia that received EU support during the 2007–2013 programming period,” Tooming added.

As a result of this project, almost 88.1 km of water pipes and 89.1 km of gravity and pressure pipelines were laid down, and 32 intermediate pumps of wastewater were established in the Viimsi rural municipality.

According to Toivo Eensalu, Head of AS Viimsi Vesi, this project completes the first stage of the Viimsi water management developing project. “There is still plenty of work to do in the Viimsi water management development and I am glad to see a part of it completed today. The work will continue under the Cohesion Fund project Viimsi Water Management Stage II and is planned to be completed by the end of 2013,” Eensalu specified.

The Viimsi water management project started in 2004 and its total cost was 13.1 million euros, 75% of which was funded by the EU Cohesion Fund. The completion of the project was also supported by the Republic of Estonia via the Environmental Investment Centre.