plant in SE Asia
FEBRUARY 14, 2014 BY TUOITRENEWS
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.
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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 Governments counterpart capital.