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HCM City expands wastewater treatment plant

The Ho Chi Minh City Urban Civil Works Construction Investment Management Authority has started work on a package to improve HCM City's urban and domestic sanitation by expanding the daily capacity of a large-scale Binh Hung sewage treatment facility from 141,000 to 469,000 cubic metres.
The Ho Chi Minh City Urban Civil Works Construction InvestmentManagement Authority has started work on a package to improve HCM City'surban and domestic sanitation by expanding the daily capacity of alarge-scale Binh Hung sewage treatment facility from 141,000 to 469,000cubic metres.

The expanded capacity will be sufficient to meetwastewater treatment needs of about 1.4 million people, and will makethe plant one of the largest sewage treatment facilities in SoutheastAsia.

The package belongs to the second phase of aproject to rehabilitate the HCM City water environment in a basin areaof 2,150ha along Tau Hu, Ben Nghe, Doi and Te canals in districts 4,5,6,8, 10 and 11.

The contract for the plant expansionwas awarded to a three-company consortium represented by POSCOEngineering & Construction, Ltd., a major construction company fromthe Republic of Korea, Hitachi, and OTV, a subsidiary of Veolia WaterSolutions & Technologies, a French environmental services group, andHitachi.

The package worth 2.8 trillion VND (131.5million USD) funded by loans from the Japanese government will becarried out within 54 months. The expanded treatment facility isscheduled for operation in August 2019.

Theexpansion will make the plant one of the largest wastewater treatmentfacilities in Southeast Asia, according to Hitachi.

Kunizo Sakai, president & CEO of Hitachi's Infrastructure SystemsCompany, said plans are currently underway for future sewageinfrastructure development projects in Vietnam, seeking to contribute tomaintaining and improving the water environment in Vietnam.

The expansion project in HCM City is the second large-scale projectawarded to Hitachi and OTV, following orders received in 2014 for a199,000 cubic metre desalination plant and pre-treatment facilities inBasrah, Iraq, the largest of its kind in the country.

Currently, HCM City has only two operational wastewater treatmentfacilities, including the first stage of the Binh Hung plant and BinhHung Hoa facility with a daily processing capacity of 30,000 cubicmeters.

According to the HCM City Steering Centre ofUrban Flood Control Programme, the city will start work on the firstphase of Nhieu Loc – Thi Nghe wastewater treatment plant this year.Costing some 478 million USD, the project has a designed capacity of480,000 cubic metres per day.

Treated wastewater nowaccounts for a low 13.2 percent of the total amount of wastewaterdischarged in the city. The city is calling for investment in 12 plantsto treat three million cubic metres of wastewater per day.-VNA
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