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Deep sewage tunnel for Abu Dhabi

  • United Arab Emirates: Tuesday, December 11 - 2007 at 15:05

Contracts to build two major new sewage treatment plants and the GCC's first deep tunnel sewerage system will be let by early 2008, Alan Thomson, managing director of the Abu Dhabi Sewage Services Company (ADSSC), told MEED's Wastewater Treatment & Reuse 2007 conference in Abu Dhabi today.

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The company is pressing ahead with the projects to deal with soaring effluent flows in Abu Dhabi and Al-Ain. They include a deep tunnel system in Abu Dhabi and new sewage treatment plants to be built by joint ventures in Abu Dhabi and in Al-Ain under build-own-operate concessions.

"We are in the final stages of appointing a programme manager for the tunnel and this should happen in January 2008 at the latest," Thomson said. "The new sewage treatment plants will be completed in 2010."

The ADSSC is a government entity set up in 2005 to own and run Abu Dhabi's sewerage systems. Thomson said that it is treating more than 500,000 cubic metres a day of effluent in its two existing main sewage treatment plans in Abu Dhabi and Al-Ain.

Following the completion of a sewage masterplan early this year, the ADSSC decided to develop a deep tunnel sewage system that would replace some of the existing systems pumping stations.
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