DWASA to set up second sewage treatment plant at Dasherkandi
Friday, 20 May 2011
Sonia H Moni
Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) is going to set up a second sewage treatment plant at Dasherkandi in the city for treating diverted sewage from Hatirjheel and Begunbari canal project, officials said. DWASA Deputy Managing Director (Research, Planning and Development) Md Liakath Ali told the FE: "We are going to set up the second sewage treatment plant at Dasherkandi which will treat sewage from Hatirjheel and Begunbari canal and send the water to the Balu river." Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) will provide consultancy support for the sewage treatment plant at Dasherkandi and WASA and BUET will sign a deal within a week in this connection. Mr Ali said, "The BUET will start working on the design of the treatment plant after signing the deal and then we will go for tender and construction work. The treatment plant might be able to treat more than 200,000 cubic metres of excreta every day." The estimated cost of the project is Tk 4.25 billion and the government will provide the entire fund. The project has been approved in the Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC). The project work is scheduled to be completed by December 2013. Indiscriminate dumping of industrial wastes and untreated sewage into the Buriganga, Balu, Turag and Shitalakhya rivers continues to strain an overburdened sewerage network and worsen the water quality of the surrounding water bodies. The Pagla sewage treatment plant at Narayanganj is the first such plant that has a capacity of treating 120,000 cubic metres of excreta every day. But it has lost the capacity of treating sewage. DWASA is planning to repair it to utilise its full capacity again. Mr Ali said, "We are planning to repair the first sewage treatment plant at Pagla with the assistance of World Bank. Now we are doing the feasibility study and then we will go for repair of the infrastructures of it. The Pagla sewage treatment plant treats the sewage of Old Dhaka, Nilkhet, Dhanmondi, Hazaribagh, etc areas." "At this moment around 30 per cent of the total area of the capital is under sewerage network coverage. And after the setting up of Dasherkandi sewage treatment plant and repair of Pagla sewage treatment plant we will be able to cover about 40 per cent to 50 per cent of the city area." He added: "We will treat the sewage and at the same time send the water at a certain level which will help the living species of the river stay alive at a healthy environment."
Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) is going to set up a second sewage treatment plant at Dasherkandi in the city for treating diverted sewage from Hatirjheel and Begunbari canal project, officials said. DWASA Deputy Managing Director (Research, Planning and Development) Md Liakath Ali told the FE: "We are going to set up the second sewage treatment plant at Dasherkandi which will treat sewage from Hatirjheel and Begunbari canal and send the water to the Balu river." Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) will provide consultancy support for the sewage treatment plant at Dasherkandi and WASA and BUET will sign a deal within a week in this connection. Mr Ali said, "The BUET will start working on the design of the treatment plant after signing the deal and then we will go for tender and construction work. The treatment plant might be able to treat more than 200,000 cubic metres of excreta every day." The estimated cost of the project is Tk 4.25 billion and the government will provide the entire fund. The project has been approved in the Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC). The project work is scheduled to be completed by December 2013. Indiscriminate dumping of industrial wastes and untreated sewage into the Buriganga, Balu, Turag and Shitalakhya rivers continues to strain an overburdened sewerage network and worsen the water quality of the surrounding water bodies. The Pagla sewage treatment plant at Narayanganj is the first such plant that has a capacity of treating 120,000 cubic metres of excreta every day. But it has lost the capacity of treating sewage. DWASA is planning to repair it to utilise its full capacity again. Mr Ali said, "We are planning to repair the first sewage treatment plant at Pagla with the assistance of World Bank. Now we are doing the feasibility study and then we will go for repair of the infrastructures of it. The Pagla sewage treatment plant treats the sewage of Old Dhaka, Nilkhet, Dhanmondi, Hazaribagh, etc areas." "At this moment around 30 per cent of the total area of the capital is under sewerage network coverage. And after the setting up of Dasherkandi sewage treatment plant and repair of Pagla sewage treatment plant we will be able to cover about 40 per cent to 50 per cent of the city area." He added: "We will treat the sewage and at the same time send the water at a certain level which will help the living species of the river stay alive at a healthy environment."