Project was visited by ex-post evaluation team on 11 January 2005 (project was one of 4 chosen for the ex=post exercise done in 33 countries from initial pilot phase of GEF/SGP).
Project was implemented according to schedule; In 1998 sewage treatment plant needed modernisation.It turned out, that when it's raining or snowing for a long time and amount of water from rain and snow grows seriously, the plant cannot process all the sewage and sewage spills out from the plant to the ditches. Modernisation was done by company which constructed and from 1998 the plant functions very well.
Ex-post team found in the Puck Town Council all the records, year by year , about quality of water (permanent monitoring), datas from modernisation.It was a very good example of cooperation between NGO (Zrzeszenie Kaszubsko-Pomorskie) and the local government (Puck Gmina) - this same indigenous background, even the knowledge of forgotten lanquage, rejected by young people.
Here we could observe a little bit different culture - joint actions of local community, good organisation, responsibility and solidarity of people, real ovnership of investment and project.

A tangible output of the project is the sewage treatment plant in Darzlubie near the Baltic Sea.
The beneficiaries of the project are: the species living in the area, the protected area itself, the international waters of the Baltic Sea as well as fields and households of the village Darzlubie.
The cooperation between the village citizens and the local government should be counted among the outputs of the project. It was developed throughout the project and exists now as well. The activity and level of civil awareness of Darzlubie citizens can be evaluated high also ? or especially ? comparing with inhabitants of Polish cities.
The sewage treatment plant in Darzlubie near the Baltic Sea functions very well for ten years now with one modernization during this time (3 years after opening). The owner of the plant is now the Puck commune regularly monitoring quality of its work. The citizens of the village gather once a year to agree on the amount of money paid for the service.
Promotion of the hydro-botanical model of sewage treatment plant for protected area in this region takes place through education; there are regular visits of school children at the plant, who learn about its functioning and the effect on the environment. However, other communes chose the other model of sewage treatment, traditional plant, because it became more popular in Poland and considered modern and technically more advanced than this alternative model.
There were also some publications in newspapers about the advantages of choosing this type of sewage management on protected areas.

In terms of capacity building however it cannot be said that there was any output. Zrzesznie Kaszubsko ? Pomorskie, the organization that was signing the project was at this time big and absorbed by their statutory activity which was connected with preserving and promoting the Kaszubian culture. This project was one of the smaller for them and they didn?t give it a lot of recognition. Now Zrzeszenie is getting less and less important for people in the region, mainly because youth is not interested in preserving the Kaszubian culture any more.