HOUSING AND COMMUNAL SERVICES



At present, housing and communal services sector of Krasnodar Region is one of the biggest branches of economics of the Region and the critical one for life support of population of Kuban.

Sixty thousand personnel members are employed by 220 enterprises of this company. Only in 2005 scope of services of the company constituted 5.8 bln. rubles and tax payments of enterprises reached 1.0 bln. rubles including 0.4 bln. rubles paid to consolidated budget of Krasnodar Region.

Housing facilities of the Region are represented by 96.0 mln. sq.m area, installed capability of intakes is 2.0 mln. cub.m/day, estimated capacity of existing sewage disposal plants is 1.5 mln. cub.m/day, 3145 communal heat-and-power boiler houses produce 15.9 mln. GCal of heat, length of heat system lines constitutes 4.5 th. kilometers.

Installed producing capacity of communal water pipelines is about 2049 th. cub.m/day including 1730 th.cub.m/day from artesian intakes (about 2 th. wells with depth 30 to 800 m are used, as well as low-pressure river intakes with 4 water treatment plants). Average specific water consumption per one inhabitant of the region is 112 liters of water per day and 145 liters per day, taking into consideration the communal-general needs.

Estimated capacity of municipal sewage disposal plants with mechanical and biological treatment facilities is 1490 th. cub.m/day. About 70 per cent of sewage disposal plants operate in accordance with the designed parameters.

Enterprises of water supply and sewage systems are the most power-consuming in the system of housing and communal services of the Region. 35- and 10 kV large transformer substations, engines of different power and voltage and other electrical equipment consuming about 1 billion of kW/h per year represent the capital assets of the enterprises.

Enterprises of cities Krasnodar, Sochi, Novorossiysk, Tuapse, Gelendzhik, Temriuk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, "Тroitsky Water Supply” and "Аrmavirvodocomplex" state unitary companies introduced and continue to improve the automated water supply production control system. This system provides accurate control of operation of the main process equipment, registration of supply and sale of drinking water, warning and elimination of emergency situations and to decrease exploitation and productions costs.