Governor Valcho Cholakov undertook in the beginning of the summer a series of unpopular measures for cleaning of the river beds. Imprisoned men are working on the most critical river sections in the region for almost a month. Results are already evident notwithstanding that the works are progressing more slow than expected because of lack of any actions in years past. River beds are owergrown by dense vegetation, they have no capacity, in several places waters are out of the river beds, there are fallen branches and whole trees. All this is delaying the cleaning process which is done at this stage manual and without special equipment due to missing financing.
Among the cleaned sections is Malkata reka in the village Ravnets. As the mayor hristo Kolev said there were not cleaned for decades past despite multiple floods and damages the river caused to the village. Local people in Aytos also expressed their gratitude to the staff of the Regional Administration that coordinates the cleaning process on the spot every day. Currently there is cleaned a part of Aytoska river which has flooded the rail-way, the southern town-side and numerous agricultural buildings. Current actions have saved roughly calculated approximately 130 000 BGN of the taxpayers.
At the present moment cleaning of the channel connecting Black sea with Vaya Lake is being completed that is flooding large storehouse areas years on the run. The Governor will suggest a concept within a month for long-term solution of the problems in this locality.
However because of the area difficulties the manual cleaning is not enough for achieving maximum results. Specialized equipment need necessitated help from the business in the region. One of the big construction materials and equipment companies gave unpaid 3 motor scythes and other light machinery. This will help to cover a larger scope of work.
The measures undertaken by the Bourgas Governor are directed against river sections in his governance only. For the rest Cholakov is appealing to responsible institutions to take measures before the rain season.
