HCMC to have largest wastewater treatment plant in SE Asia

HCMC to have largest wastewater treatment plant in SE Asia

As part a World Bank-funded project, a wastewater treatment plant capable of treating up to 450,000 cubic meters of wastewater per day for Ho Chi Minh City is being designed the Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management, a German company.

Construction of the plant will begin in 2015 and when completed and put into operation in 2018, the facility will be the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia, the Management Board of the HCMC Water Environmental Hygiene Project said on Thursday.

Included in phase 2 of the aforementioned project, the plant will be built on an area of 38 hectares in Thanh My Loi Ward in District 2, HCMC, said Phan Chau Thuan, the director of board.

Upon operation, the plant will collect all the wastewater from the basin of Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe canal in Districts 1 and 3 and Phu Nhuan, Binh Thanh, Go Vap, Tan Phu and Tan Binh Districts, and from the Thu Thiem peninsula, Thuan said.

Currently, without such a facility, wastewater from these areas is preliminarily treated and pumped out to the Saigon River.

CDM International Inc, an American consulting company, will design a sewer system that is 8 km long and 3.2 meters wide to link the sewerage at the Saigon River bank with the plant.

After its initial operation period, the plant will raise its capacity to 850,000 cubic meters of wastewater per day.

The total investment of the project is estimated to be US$520 million, of which $450 million is World Bank loans and the rest is from the Vietnamese Government’s counterpart capital.

Of the $450-million WB loans, $200 million will be interest-free.

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