Ilsur Metshin inspects a new snow melting station

A new snow melting station will start operating on Portovaya Street in December. It will allow three times to increase the capacity for melting of snow on the territory of the Vakhitovsky and Privolzhsky city districts. The capacity of all snowmaking stations will increase from 6,300 tons to more than 8,000 tons of snow per day. At the new station, a system of so-called “electronic snow coupons” developed at the Kazan Executive Committee will be tested in a test mode, which will speed up the cleaning of the city. Today, the Mayor of the capital of the republic of Tatarstan Ilsur Metshin inspected the progress of construction work.

The new station on Portovaya Street is equipped with two cameras and will be able to melt 1,148 tons of snow every day. In order not to clog the point, garbage-holding baskets are installed in the chambers. The construction of the administrative building is being completed. Production work is scheduled to be completed in December, today they are 95% completed, reported the director of the Municipal Unitary Enterprise “Vodokanal” Andrey Yegorov.

In addition to this facility, the capacities of the snow melting station on Nesmelova street are currently increasing in Kazan.

“We continue to increase the urban infrastructure for snow removal and disposal, because the number of roads being cleaned is growing. The city needs new snow melting units. Last year we removed 665,000 tons of snow to the snowmaking stations – this is 27% more than in 2021. We must prepare all the resources we have before winter,”- Ilsur Metshin said.

There are seven snow melting stations with 11 reception chambers in Kazan. With the commissioning of two facilities, the number of snow melting units will increase to eight, and the number of receiving chambers will increase to 14. The total capacity will increase from 6,300 tons to more than 8 thousand tons.

A snow storage area is also being built on Tetsevskaya Street with an area of more than 12,000 square meters. It will be the first site in the city equipped with a storm sewer with a meltwater treatment system. It is planned to remove snow from part of the territory of the Aviastroitelny, Kirovsky and Moskovsky districts.

In case of emergencies, together with the district administrations, nine additional places for temporary storage of snow have been organized.

In order to increase the capacity of the new snow melting unit, a project on automatic recognition of dump trucks is being implemented in test mode, Maxim Bulatov, aide to the Mayor on digitalization, reported. For the removal of 665 thousand tons of snow removed last winter, it took about 133 thousand rounds. Until now, the procedure for receiving snow at the stations of the city has been quite lengthy: checking the driver's admission in manual mode and obtaining a permit takes an average of 10 to 20 minutes. As a result, queues of trucks appear in front of the gates of the stations. The new system of so-called “electronic snow coupons” allows automatically recognize transport, determine which organization it belongs to, correlate it with the admission data. This will increase the capacity of the unit and increase the speed of cleaning city streets.