In 2018, at the expense of the federal, regional and local budgets, capital repairs will be carried out on seven Sverdlovsk hydraulic structures, three of them will be completed, an order was signed by the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuyvashev, informational policy department informs..

The total amount of planned financing for 2018 is 250.1 million rubles, of which 151.6 million rubles will be financed from the federal budget, 74.6 million rubles from the regional budget, 23.9 million rubles will be allocated from municipal budgets, Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Sverdlovsk Region Alexey Kuznetsov.

"The protection of budgetary design in the Federal Agency for Water Resources has been passed, all activities planned for 2018 have received a positive expert opinion for allocating federal budget funds. Based on the results of the consideration of the Sverdlovsk region government's bid for 2018, the Federal Water Resources Agency made a positive decision to double the amount of funding for the Sverdlovsk region in measures aimed at preventing negative impacts of water, "said Alexei Kuznetsov.

He specified that in 2018 it is planned to complete the overhaul of the Verkhne-Sinyachikhinsky hydroelectric complex (MO Alapaevskoye), the Bizert GTS (Bisertsky GO) and the Kamyshevsky hydrounit (Beloyarsky GO). As a result of this work, the total population living in areas at risk of flooding in the event of an accident on the GTS will be reduced by 1000 people. The amount of damage prevented as a result of bringing the safety of the GTS, will be about 800 million rubles.

There will also be a major overhaul of the GTS of the Kushvinsky hydroscheme (Kushvinsky GO, completion of the work is planned in 2019), the GTS of the Nizhnesaldinsky hydroelectric complex (Lower Salda GO, the completion of the work is planned in 2020), the GTS Aleksandrovsky pond on the Zyuzya River (MO Krasnoufimsky District, in 2019), the GTS of the Pelevinsky hydroelectric complex (Baikalovsky municipal district, the completion of works is planned in 2019).