By Kaushalendra Singh — SALALAH: March 1 - The Salalah Sanitary Drainage Services Company (SSDC), a wholly government owned entity of the Sultanate, entered into an agreement with Galfar Engineering and Contracting and AAW and Partners on Wednesday to upgrade Raysut Water Reclamation Plant in Salalah. The RO 13,104,431 worth project is likely to complete in the beginning of the first quarter of 2019. The project is the continuation of SSDC’s earlier project that targeted the capacity of 35,000m3 of wastewater per day. The project’s goal is to achieve the target of 56,000m3 per day after achieving the current target of 45,000m3 per day.
The agreement was signed under the auspices of Abdullah bin Aqeel al Ibrahim, Acting Deputy Governor of Dhofar. Present on the occasion were management representatives of Galfar, AAW and SSDC. After signing of the agreement, Muamer Ahmed al Zubaidi, Planning and Project Manager at SSDC, said the SSDC aimed expansion in Sahalnut and North Awqad by covering 80 per cent of the network. The expansion is likely to boost SSDC with inclusion of new units into the system and flow of revenue from these households.
“Our larger plan is to generate electricity from the gas in the plant in order to minimise operation cost and cost of power for the plant. This is an ambitious project and the SSDC is working on to realise it soon after the completion of the wastewater target,” Al Zubaidi said.
Commenting on current status of the project, Al Zubaidi said: “Currently we are in mobilisation stage, which is to end on April 15 and soon after that we will start the construction process. The end date of construction is April 15, 2019.”
The SSDC’s emergency marine outfall project works as a support to an established sewer network and treatment facility. The domestic sewage wastewater has an average hydraulic load of about 23,000 to 27,000m3 per day. During the Khareef the average load reaches 35,000m3 per day.
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