June 17 (SeeNews) - Croatian water management company Hrvatske Vode has signed a contract with utility company Odvodnja Zadar for construction of a 567 million kuna ($85.9 million/76.6 million euro) infrastructure in the area of Zadar-Petrcane, the Zadar city council said.
Out of the total financing for the project, 313 million kuna will come from a European Union grant, the city council said in a statement on Friday.
The project is divided into 28 sub-projects covering 28 settlements.
"Zadar is one of the coastal cities which has developed the most in the last 30 years, which is made evident by these works," Croatia's prime minister Andrej Plenkovic was quoted as saying at the signing of the agreement.
The project includes the installation of more than 1,500 connections to the drainage system, 100 kilometres of sewage network, some 40 kilometres of water supply network, as well as 19 pumping stations.
The first construction works should be launched by the end of the year. The deadline for completion of the project is December 31, 2023.
(1 euro = 7.40417 kuna)