CRO SPLIT HARBOUR CURRENTLY CLEANEST ON MEDITERRANEAN

SPLIT, July 31 (Hina) - The Split harbour on the Croatian coast was the cleanest in the Mediterranean at the moment, thanks to the just completed construction of a main harbour sewer, Split mayor Nikola Grabic told a press conference on Wednesday, adding that Split was, thanks to the biggest and technologically most improved equipment for liquid waste cleansing, the only Mediterranean city to have solved this problem so efficiently. This was not only the project of the century for Split, but also one for the future, having completely altered the ecological aspect of the city, once the most polluted on the Adriatic, Grabic said, adding that all Split beaches were now clean. The cost of the sewer was over 22 million German marks, and it would start working on 2 August, Grabic concluded. (hina) ha mm 311300 MET jul 96