Tender to develop a recreation park in Chisinau to be announced
The Chisinau City Hall will shortly submit to the Chisinau Municipal Council [city legislature] for consideration a draft resolution on announcing an investment contest for the right to breath in a second life into the Valea Morilor recreation zone, Deputy Mayor Nistor Grozavu said at the City Hall's weekly working meeting today.
He said, there may be two variants of holding the contest. One stipulates that the right to carry out all works - cleansing and restoration of the currently drained Valea Morilor lake and equipment of the entire area around it - will be given to one mighty investor, which will thus become the master of this beautiful zone so loved by citizens and Chisinau guests. And the second variant stipulates that the gigantic work volume will be divided among several investors.
It was stressed at the City Hall working meeting that prior to embarking on the evacuation of lake silt, the Ministry of the Interior Department of Emergencies will have to thoroughly check the lake bottom: last couple of years, when initial digging and silt evacuation works were undertaken, the workers found ammunition backing to the Second World War. Also, the Moldovan Academy of Sciences is requesting to postpone the large-scale lake rehabilitation works for one year to carry out archeological excavations.
In this connection, Chisinau Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca would like to hear the Chisinau Municipal Council's opinion and discuss the issue with councilors.
The beautiful park (100 hectares) and the artificial lake in the heart of it (36 hectares) were built in the early 1950s thank to the patriotic enthusiasm of the members of the Komsomol [Russian-language acronym for Kommunisticheskii Soyuz Molodezhi - the USSR Young Communists' League]. The popular undertaking project was under close attention of Leonid Brezhnev, who was the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the republic's Communist Party then.
Over half a century later, the lake, whose original name had remained the Komsomol Lake until the republic's independence in the early 1990s, became so shallow and dirty that it became clear to all it had to be cleansed otherwise it would simply vanish. So, in 2006 the then President Vladimir Voronin convened a special meeting of all relevant organizations to discuss the issue.
Shortly after that, water from the lake was drained away. And in April 2007 President Voronin visited the site himself and ordered to work out an all-embracing concept of rehabilitation of both the lake and the park. Works were launched to evacuate hundreds of thousand cubic meters of the lake silt. But due to lack of funding, all operations were stopped. Now the place, which in its current shape presents nothing but an uglification of nature, is gradually developing into a young forest, as random trees strike roots densely where citizens once used to enjoy swimming, sunbathing, fishing and boating.
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