Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality's bottom mud cleaning project, which will give life to Izmit Bay and Marmara, continues uninterruptedly. As part of the project, the bay is cleared of mud and the ecological change that will occur in the environment also comes to the fore.
Efforts are also being made to ensure that the pond, one of the symbols of the city and located within the Kocaeli fair, where the National Garden works are currently carried out, will benefit positively from the ecological change that will occur. At the inspection and evaluation meeting held around the pond, the area's attainment of healthier environmental conditions and its transformation into an exemplary recreation area were discussed.
INSPECTION OF THE POND AND ITS SURROUNDINGS
While the eastern basin of the bay was cleaned with the Izmit Bay Bottom Sludge Cleaning project, the cleaning of the fair pond within the National Garden construction area was discussed in the review and meeting. Head of Building Control Department Serkan Ihlamur, Head of Environmental Protection and Control Department Mesut Önem, Department of Parks and Gardens staff, relevant branch managers and technical staff, and lecturers of Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Engineering attended the programme. Inspections were made in the surrounding area. Then, a meeting was held to ensure that the pond and its surroundings reached better environmental conditions and provided a healthy recreation opportunity.
The work in the project, which will transform the fairground into an exemplary National Garden, is carried out by the Building Control Department teams. Work continues to ensure that the pond, one of the symbols of the city and located in the National Garden of Kocaeli, will reach better environmental conditions and provide a healthy recreation opportunity. What can be done within the scope of protecting the water quality and existing habitat of the pond was discussed scientifically. First of all, the physical condition of the pond, water quality and biodiversity were revealed, and then what could be done to achieve better environmental conditions in the short, medium and long term were discussed at the meeting.
