• Izmit Integrated Environmental Project - River Improvement

  • Client

    Izmit Metropolitan Municipality

  • Project information

    - Clinical and Hazardous Waste Incineration and Power
    - Generation Plant(35,000 tons/year)
    - Wastewater Collectors
    - Domestic and Industrial Solid Waste Sanitary Landfill (4,000,000m3)
    - Izmit-Eastern Part Domestic and Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant
    - River Rehabilitation
    - DM 464,179,190 (Consortium)
    - 56.80% Veziroğlu Group 43.20% Lurgi


    - Excavation : 311,500 m3
    - Fill : 350,000 m3
    - Geotextile : 382,000 m2
    - Pile (Ø650 mm): 3,300 m

Rivers become heavily polluted in 1980s due to rapid increase in population and indiscriminate discharges from industrial, commercial, livestock and domestic sources.

- Environmental improvement works for rivers
- Dredging, drying and storing regularly of the active sludge deposited on riverbeds.
- Major and minor engineering works includes improvements to the river channel by concrete lining and cladding of slopes by precast elements.