Greater Cairo Wastewater Improvement
Country:
Egypt
Financing Institution:
USAID, Bilaterals & the World Bank
Name of Client:
Ministry of Reconstruction, New Communities, Housing and Utilities & USAID
Under sub-contract to Black and Veatch, provided long term specialists in sanitation engineering, training and maintenance. Specialists served as part of the project team and were engaged in providing site inspection and construction management services; development and institutionalizing an equipment maintenance program, including set-up of workshops and training of staff; and advisory services for operations and maintenance training for the overall project. This was a long term, tri-patriate project to improve and extend the wastewater collection and treatment system of Greater Cairo. The project included the following phases with a total construction cost of $1.5 billion:
- Preparation of master plan
- Design, construction and training for rehabilitation of facilities (cleaning of pumping mains and networks, retrofit of more than 100 pumps, construction of 6 new pumping facilities and 47 km of mains and pipes)
- Design and construction of East Bank projects (2,740 Mld Ameria pumping station, 35 km of main and branch tunnels, 15 km of culverts, 2,230 Mld Kossous and 1,500 Mld Khalad pumping stations, and 1,000 Mld Gabal el Asfar treatment plant with 1,730 Mld pumping station)
- Design and construction of West Bank Projects (55 km of collectors and culverts, 7 pumping stations from 240 Mld to 832 Mld, 330 Mld Zenein treatment plant and 400 Mld Abu Rawash treatment plant)
- Demonstration project for unsewered areas
- Operation management services.
- Site inspection
- Construction management
- Equipment maintenance programs
- Institutional Development
- Training.