Over 4,000 new trees and 260 improved residential areas have appeared in the Vitebsk region in a year
As reported by Vyacheslav Demidenko, Deputy Head of the Department of the Regional Committee for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, significant work was done in preparation for the "Dazhynki-2017" festival-fair of village workers in Dubrovno, as well as in Braslav, Vitebsk, Glubokoye, Gorodok, Miory, Orsha, Polotsk, Postavy, Kopys (Orsha district), Akhremovtsy (Braslav district), Koroby-2 (Glubokoye district), Dobromysli (Liozno district), Barsuki (Dokshitsy district), Kamai (Postavy district), Dolzhe and Kopty (Vitebsk district).
In settlements, 260 household areas were improved, 511 container sites and 965 waste collection containers were installed and repaired, lawns were laid out on an area of 17.9 hectares, and 4.3 thousand trees and 9.5 thousand shrubs were planted.
Over 100 recreation areas were equipped in the road reservations of highways. By the summer season, 89 existing and 9 new recreation areas were equipped near water bodies, and 50 and 6 respectively – in specially protected natural areas.
57 mini-landfills for solid municipal waste and 22 intra-farm quarries were reclaimed. 767 unauthorized dumps were identified and eliminated.
29 unusable and unexploited agricultural buildings were demolished. 15 unused artesian wells were plugged.
Special attention was paid to the control of Sosnowski's hogweed, which occupies more than 2 thousand hectares; work was carried out on 85% of the areas. 77 thousand rubles were allocated from local budgets for these purposes, and land users spent 109 thousand rubles of their own funds.