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Development of Sanitation in Karelian villages
Final seminar of the firstphase29.01.2009Project coordinatorSusanna Pakula
Journeys to Karelia: first trip
First visit at May 19-20th 2008 to meet the partners and to see the study areasseminar at NWPI with the partnersvisit to Paj village, Derevjanka, Derevjannoeand Kizhi Islandmemorandum of understanding: NWPI, Prionezskij, Kizhi
Journeys to Karelia: second trip
Susanna Pakula and Denis Kovyazinfirst field examinations 20.7-26.7Paj village, Derevjannoe and Kizhiforms for making notes of water supply, toilets and wastewater management5 private estates, 6 public estates at PajDerevjannoe municipal childrens camp4 estates on Yamka village and museum areafor Prionezskij
Results of a second trip
calculation of costs and need for timber of a toilet building based on Karelian toilet modelfor Prionezskij administrationsurvey on where to locate a toilet nearPodjelnikij chappel at mainland near KizhiKizhi new toilet model to be tested outside the museum areacorrection of the classifications
Journeys to Karelia: third trip
Denis Kovyazin at 16.8-10.9On Kizhi island- 25 estates examined, covers for 90 % of permanent populationAt Paj settlement- 43 estates covers for one third of the population
Information of estates
Confidential information: address, name of the owner/beholder of estate, own forms for thisOrder number of estate, village number, private or public, usage of estate (farm, summer cottage, private house, store, school,)Number of inhabitants/users, months/yearLivestockNumbers of units examined at one estate: for eg. more than one toilet building at estatephotographs
Contest of water supply examinations
drinking water supply: common/own well, municipal water network origin of raw water, surface/groundwaterPurification: no/mechanical/chemicalAssessment of feasibility of a well: technical structures, ventilation, location and risk of contamination
Contest of toilet examinations
Toilet type: water closet or dry toiletCharacteristics of dry toilet: container, separation of liquid (urine) of faeces, ventilation, use of composting agent, possibility to wash hands, what is done to toilet waste, location: distance to wells, streams, ditches etc, emptying, farms handling of manure
Contest of wastewater examinations
Is there municipal sanitary sewer or notPurification and disposal of wastewaters: disposed to ground unpurified/to water body unpurified, conducted to septic tank/cesspool, purifiedCondition of septic tank: lid, material, concrete rings, t-componentFilling rate of septic tank, emptying, location
Results: water supply
no municipal water network, only at Pajwhich served app. 5 houses, but the watercould not be used for drinkingtwo drilled well I Paj 1 Kizhicommon wells, mainly of wooden structurealso lake water used for drinkingbuckets stolen everybody used their own => problems with hygiene
Results: Toilets
mostly waterless toiletsmainly no tight containers which could be easilyemptiedusually there where no ventilation or separation of liquidsmainly no composting agent usedmainly no possibility to wash handssome cases sewage lorry emptied the toilets, butwhere the sludge was disposed not certain
Inside and backwards
Results: toilets
in private households toilet waste wascompostedmaintainance problems: no emptying and/ordifficult to empty because of the structure of building, container and seat holes didn´t fitmixed waste amongst toilet waste, cleaningwith clorine, wastewaters disposed to toiletwaste container => composting impossible
Problems with containers
Composting impossible
Results: Wastewater
only at Kizhi wastewater purificationat some estates there where cesspools, butwhere sludge was disposed was unclearmostly wastewater disposed to groud and also amonst toilet waste
Wastewater management
Results
dry toilet guide translated into russiaspecial cases at Kizhi: new toilet plans for Podjelnikij, for Vasilievo village and touristarea
Next phase of Project
Hoping to continue this year, still waiting for decisions from Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Neighbouring area cooperation by NGOsPaj renewal of wells, renewal plans for public estates and one example of private household solutionsKizhi, testing one of toilet models possibly first outside the turist area
The Enhancement of the Use of Dry Toilets in the Republic of Karelia
new project financed by Ministery of EnvironmentYM30/413/2008starts at FebruaryFinnish dry toilet manufactures Lassila&Tikanoja and Raita Environment will supply the equipmentsTotal budget 77 850 €support the use of dry toilets in the republic of Karelia by two examples of modern Finnish dry toilets: test sites Derevjannoe children camp and Sholtozero home museum