Directorate General SDRF

Directorate General "Supervision of dams and related facilities" GD SDRF

Contact Person:
Maria Piryankova, General Director
Sofia 1797 52A, G.M.Dimitorv Blvd.
Tel.: + 359 2 892 97 65
Fax: +359 2 986 17 07
E-mail: Maria.Piryankova@damtn.government.bg

Scope of activities:

Directorate General “Supervision of dams and related facilities”:

To control the measures applied for keeping the dam walls and related facilities in good technical condition and for ensuring their safe exploitation;
To control the implementation of activities for immediate decommissioning of dam walls and/or related facilities, which are in poor condition, until their technological and constructive safety is recovered or for demolition of such dam walls and/or facilities in case their recovering and reconstruction are inexpedient;
To control the implementation of the directions of the Commissions under Art. 138a, para. 3 and Art. 190a. para. 1, point 3 of the Water Act;
To control the implementation of measures for ensuring good technical condition of the dam walls and related facilities and their safe exploitation;
To control the implementation of activities for decommissioning and/or liquidation of dam walls and related facilities;
To give mandatory prescriptions to the owners of dams and/or related facilities in accordance with its powers, given by the Water Act, including for the implementation of measures and activities for the clarification of the technical condition and the conditions for exploitation of the controlled objects, and also to fix time period for their implementation;
To apply enforcement administrative measures by Orders for: a prohibition of using and access to a dam, which is being exploited not according to the requirements of the Ordinance pursuant to Art. 141, para. 2 of the Water Act; decommissioning of dam walls and related facilities; temporarily decommissioning of dam walls and related facilities in order to prevent accident hazard of the facilities until bringing them to a condition complying with the technical rules;
To control the information recording in the “Dam register” about the destruction of a hydro-technical equipment or its part after a notification under Art. 145, para. 4 of the Water Act;
To contribute for timely collection of the Agency’s fees and fines.

Structure:

DG SDWRF is administratively structured in 2 central department and 8 regional departments:

Address and e-mail	Contact person	Phone	Fax
DG “Supervision of dams and related facilities” 1797 Sofia, 52A G.M.Dimitrov blvd. Maria.Piryankova@damtn.government.bg	Maria Piryankova Director General	02/ 892 97 65	02/ 986 17 07
DG “Supervision of dams and related facilities” 1797 Sofia, 52A G.M.Dimitrov blvd. Lachezar.Todorov@damtn.government.bg	Lachezar Todorov Deputy Director General	02/ 892 97 65
Department ”Control and methodology” 1797 Sofia, 52A G.M.Dimitrov blvd. Bogomil.Borisov@damtn.government.bg	Bogomil Borisov Head of department	02/ 892 97 72	02/ 986 17 07
“Information and analyses” 1797 Sofia, 52A G.M.Dimitrov blvd. Svetla.Ivanova@damtn.government.bg	Svetla Ivanova Ph.D. Head of departmentt	02/892 97 77
Regional Department SDRF Southwestern Bulgaria 2700 Blagoevgrad, 1 Svoboda St., floor 2 Aleksandar.Ivanov@damtn.government.bg	Alexandar Ivanov Head of department	073/ 88 54 63	073/ 88 54 63
Regional Department SDRF West-Central Bulgaria 1797 Sofia, 13 Lachezar Stanchev St. Ivan.Syarov@damtn.government.bg	Ivan Syarov Head of department	02/ 939 67 09
Regional Department SDRF Northwestern Bulgaria 3000 Vratsa, 95 General Leonov St, floor 5 EmilG.Dimitrov@damtn.government.bg	еng. Emil Dimitrov Head of department	092/ 64 74 51
Regional Department SDRF North-Central Bulgaria 5000 Veliko Tarnovo, 2 Hristo Botev St., floor 3 Dimitar.Yordanov@damtn.government.bg	Head of department
Regional Department SDRF Northeastern Bulgaria 9023 Varna, Vladislavovo NBHD, 5 Murgash St., floor 3 Yavor.Dimitrov@damtn.government.bg	Yavor Dimitrov Head of department	052/ 75 03 07	052/ 75 03 13
Regional Department SDRF Southeastern Bulgaria 8010 Burgas, q. ”Slavejkov”, Prof. Y. Yakimov St., № 25 Milush.Kumchev@damtn.government.bg	Milush Kumchev Head of department
Regional Department SDRF South-Central Bulgaria 4000 Plovdiv, 67 Sankt Petersbourg Blvd. Penka.Tsakova@damtn.government.bg	Penka Tsakova Head of department	032/ 63 31 35
Regional Department SDWRF Southern Bulgaria Haskovo, 2 Panorama St. Margarita.Karaivanova@damtn.government.bg	Margarita Karivanova Head of department

Legislation:

Water Act;
ORDINANCE on the terms and rules for carrying out technical and safe operation of dam walls and related facilities as well as on the control of their technical condition;
ORDINANCE № РД-04-02 of 25 November 2016 on the terms and rules of usage of an information system for technical condition of dam walls and related facilities, provided by SAMTS.

In relation to the DG SDRF activities the following template is available (in Bulgarian):

Template of application for issuing permission for taking out of exploitation and/or destruction of dam wall and related facilities
Template of application for providing access to the SAMTS information system in the order of Ordinance № РД-04-02 of 25 November 2016 on the terms and rules of usage of an information system for technical condition of dam walls and related facilities, provided by SAMTS.