Mykolaivvodokanal plans to spend ₴13.1 million to restore roads after repairing networks in Mykolaiv

A water utility crew works to repair a water main breakdown along 11a Liniya Street in Mykolaiv, August 2024, photo by «NikVesti»

The utility company «Mykolaivvodokanal» is looking for a contractor to restore the road surface after repairing networks in the city.

The tender was published in the ProZorro public procurement system, according to NikVesti.

The expected cost of the works is 13.1 million hryvnias. With these funds, the contractor will have to restore the roadway of streets and intra-quarter passages, as well as sidewalks, destroyed due to the repair of networks, by 31 March 2026. This includes levelling and sub-base layers and asphalt concrete pavement, according to the tender documentation.

The process of submitting applications from future participants is currently underway, and the winner will be selected after 7 January.

As reported, the municipal enterprise «Mykolaivvodokanal» needs 750 million hryvnias to carry out its activities in 2026.

Read also the article NikVesti «When will Mykolaiv get drinking water in the taps and how much will it cost?».

As a reminder, new water treatment facilities for centralised water supply in Mykolaiv are being built at the expense of funds saved during the construction of a new water supply system. The purified water is expected to be launched in January, but the water treatment plant will be fully operational in March 2026.

Initially, Mykolaiv planned to take out an EIB loan for the construction of the new water treatment plant, with Denmark providing the remaining part as a grant. The project was supposed to take several years to implement and was supposed to help provide the city with water of European standards.

But later, Serhii Sukhomlyn, head of the State Agency for Reconstruction, said that this idea was abandoned. And it was decided to build new water treatment plants with public funds — those that were saved during the construction of a new water supply system for the city.

However, the mayor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Sienkevych, supports the modernisation of the new water treatment plant with a loan from the European Investment Bank, but believes that the state should pay for it.