Among the 20 water intakes located within the service area of Veolia Djur, the largest is the Gyard Water Intake, situated 30 km from Kapan city at an altitude of 1,700 meters above sea level. Kapan’s water supply comes from surface river waters, which are first treated at the city’s two intakes — Gyard and Ajibaj — where the water undergoes initial purification to remove sand and solid particles. From there, it is pumped through a 10-kilometer pipeline to the Geghi Water Treatment Plant for deeper and final purification.
Constructed in the 1970s, the Gyard intake had become completely degraded and corroded over time, meaning it could no longer properly perform its function. For this reason, Veolia Djur included the modernization of the long-neglected Gyard intake in the list of unplanned works under this year’s Mandatory Capital Works Program.
By investing 80 million AMD, the company has launched large-scale construction works with the goal of completing them by the end of November. Veolia Djur is doing everything possible to ensure that by late autumn — during the rainy season when river water becomes heavily turbid — the intake will be ready to operate at full capacity, purifying and directing up to 300 liters of water per second to the treatment plant.
In addition to these works, the company is also reconstructing water pipelines within Kapan’s distribution network using its own resources. Over the past ten months, the Kapan Operational Unit has already rebuilt about 8 km of water pipelines and 2 km of sewer lines along Shahumyan Street and in the David Bek and R. Minasyan neighborhoods. Currently, Veolia specialists are working in the Shgharshik district, where 2 km of water pipelines are being replaced with new ones.