ReTInA

1. ReTInA ReTInA Revitalisation of Traditional Industrial Areas in South-East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme South-East Europe, Priority Axis 4: Development of transnational synergies for sustainable growth areas, Area of Intervention 4.1: Tackle crucial problems affecting metropolitan areas and regional systems of settlements

2. Municipality of Galati • Local public administration authority • Competencies: • organising the staff of the: city hall, institutions and public services of local interest • managing the economic, social and environmental development of the locality • 3. administrating the public and private domain of the locality • 4. managing all public services • 5. ensuring cooperation between institutions both national and foreign.

3. Municipality of Galati • The Department of European Programmes and Projects (DEPP) • - Local institutional structure ensuring access european funds needed to fulfill the strategic objectives of urban development, promotion of sustainable growth and employment through an effective management system, based on monitoring, evaluation and control. • The structure of Department: • Service for Application Drafting • Service for Project Management • Bureau for International Projects

4. Our objectives in this project • Rehabilitation of land and industrial constructions no longer in use and remodel these areas for potential investors • Eliminating or reducing contamination of sites with industrial waste; • Increase in the quality of life of the city’s population

5. Our motivation • large number of contaminated and abandoned sites due to significant heavy industry activities • this land presents a significant risk for the environment and for people’s health • high demand for available land for public utilities or business development • Arcelor Mittal Steel Plant is the largest polluter in Romania (currently monitored by the National Authorities for Environmental Protection) • The Local Agency for Environmental Protection has to meet European standards in environment until December 31st 2014

6. Outputs & Results • inventory of abandoned or contaminated sites, whether they are publicly or privately owned • a strategy to valorise them; • assessment of the current situation concerning promoting investments in these locations; • technical documentation required for the process of the valorisation of these sites for investment projects financed through Structural Instruments.

7. Local Partners • the owners of the derelict sites (from the following industries: metallurgic, naval, textile, construction and food ), • Local Environmental Protection Agency Galaţi, • The Bureau for Spatial Planning and Real Estate Publicity of Galaţi, • University “Dunărea de Jos” Galaţi

8. Candidate areas for revitalization • Arcelor Mittal Galati – the slag heap and the pitch deposit • Miner Sort S.A. – 18 ha polluted with iron and carbon derivates • SNCFR – terrain adjacent tot the railways polluted with municipal solid waste • Tirighina waste dumpsite • the coke chemical plant • various sites belonging to local firms : Mehid, Elnav, Menarom

10. Arcelor Mittal Galati • Largest steel plant in the country and among the largest in South and Central Europe (due to capacity as well as performance) • spans over 1595 hectares which, prior to 1961, used to be farming land • 2 major sites for revitalization: the slag heap, the pitch heap and the coke chemical plant • The slag heap spans over 110 hectares with a variable height of approx. 50 meters • the slag heap was started in 1968 for the residue produced by the steel plant • beween 1968 and 2007, the furnace produced 3 760 000 tons of slag, the foundry produced 12 600 000 tons and 900 000 tons resulted from other internal processes

11. Pitch heap Slag heap Coke chemical plant no 2

12. The Slag Heap

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