Rest Areas and Bird Watching Towers set up at Palic and Ludas
At the beginning of February 2020, a contract was signed with the company GRAS GARDEN ltd. for the works, i.e. clearing the area of the protection zone around both lakes, as one of the investment measures of the Project. The goal was the following: remove the non-native species from the area of the protection zone, [...]
The sludge of the Subotica treatment plant and its way from waste to “green energy” and compost
All wastewater of the population, institutions, crafts and industry, as well as the storm water of the city of Subotica, is collected in the combined sewerage system and reaches the Wastewater Treatment Plant through the main collector line. The plant consists of two lines: Water line - mechanical and biological wastewater treatment Sludge line - [...]
Ecolacus Project Management – One of many episodes
The ECOLACUS Project is nearing its completion. Like through many visits before, the main expert consultants Fritz Schwaiger and Marko Stojcic from Posch & Partners Consulting Engineers, visited Subotica and Palic and inspected the progress of works. They visited the site where they had a conversation with the management of PUC "Vodovod i kanalizacija" and [...]
Ludas Environmental Education Camp 2021
Ludas Environmental Education Camp 2021 is created in cooperation with the Association of Nature Lovers Riparia and PE Palic - Ludas. The camp itself is located at the Ludas visitor centre. Yet, other research activities are also being carried out in the areas of Landscapes of exceptional features - Subotica sandstone, Special Nature Reserve Selevenj [...]
Otters in protected areas – lakes Palic and Ludas
The Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) is an autochthonous species from the marten family that is found in lakes Palic and Ludas, as well as all over the entire Kireš river basin in the Subotica region. It is dark brown in colour and about one meter long. Otters belong to the strictly protected species. Their extremely [...]
Effects of the Sewerage Network Construction at Palić within the Ecolacus Project
Author: Petar Doroslovački, B.Sc. Information Engineering, Project Ecolacus PR Team Member The construction of over 15 kilometres of the gravitational sewage network in the residential and tourist part of the Palić settlement began at the end of August 2019. It was completed within the set deadline at the end of September 2020. Thus, the existing [...]
Selective catch of invasive fish in Palic Lake
On June 15th, 2021, as part of the project of the German Development Bank - KfW "Biodiversity and Water Protection Lake Palic and Lake Ludas - Ecolacus", activities on selective fishing of invasive fish species in Palić Lake continued. Employees of the PE "Palic - Ludas", in cooperation with an engaged fishing company from Serbia, [...]
Upgrading of The Subotica Wastewater Treatment Plant and Wastewater Pumping Station Palic
Works for upgrading of the Subotica wastewater treatment plant are approaching finalisation. Almost all activities are completed and the facilities are in the testing phase. Works have been ongoing in extremely complicated environment due to Covid-19 and the related problems with health risk, travelling and meeting restrictions, importing of goods and similar. Nevertheless, the contract [...]
The true reason behind periodic mass fish kill in Lake Palic (VIDEO)
We have witnessed the periodic mass fish kills in Lake Palić in the last decade. The amount of dead fish varies, but these deaths always happen in late spring. This phenomenon has always been explained and related to the poor water quality and unfavourable survival conditions for fish in Lake Palić. https://youtu.be/Fo_RDQZESXs Gabor Mesaros, Ph.D., [...]