CDR October 2012 Basic services 135 Waste Water Overview of the sector rehabilitation works of existing administration of the Litani Until early nineties, wastewater wastewater networks and National Authority to invest its facilities were limited to disparate pumping stations, and water in irrigation in South of networks between one region and resolution of all the recent Lebanon, and West Bekaa). another. Although main cities are issues. Moreover, all water departments equipped with incomplete 2) Completion of projects stopped have been included in these wastewater networks, they are still involuntarily and network institutions and subject to the lacking treatment plants. As to extension and rehabilitation custody of the ministry of Energy small demographic communities, according to the needs. and Water. they aren’t equipped nor with 3) Launching two programs for In 2001, boards of administration networks neither with plants. As a protecting the Lebanese coasts for water institutions were formed. result, the issue of water pollution and water resources from In 2005, organizational decrees was exacerbating day after day pollution. and new structures thereof were (random sea estuaries polluting elaborated and enforced in order the sea and beaches, random In other terms, the objective of this to achieve many goals, mainly sanitation facilities, ground strategy is to address the problem rehabilitating and improving effluents, and streams polluting of pollution and wastewater facility services, extending their underground water layers…) disposal in a radical manner coverage zone, and maintain the therefore threatening the sanitary throughout the country, as the administrative stability and environment of citizens. Lebanese government worked and financial balance of institutions. The insufficiency of wastewater is still working on completing and services in regions is due to many organizing the public service in Achievements during 1992- reasons, most importantly: the wastewater sector. 2011 1) The insufficient spending in the However, completing the work on The value of projects implemented sector, in other terms the lack of the third axe remains the main to date in the wastewater sector investments required to goal of CDR for the upcoming reached US$ 540* million; the improve, construct and develop stage after works have progressed main projects are the following: facilities up to an appropriate along the two other axes. service and environmental • Emergency rehabilitation of level. At the institutional level, the wastewater networks (NERP1- 2) The absence of a convenient promulgation of law 221/2000 first year): This project covered administrative and executive constituted a primordial step the emergency repair and structure in the sector to toward the restructuring and rehabilitation of wastewater accompany the increasing modernization of the sectors of networks in all regions of urgent need for wastewater water and wastewater, since Lebanon, in addition to the services, implement new public water properties were rehabilitation of two wastewater methods followed by the defined (ground and pumping stations in Al Mina- administration and in the field underground), and an integrated Tripoli and Jounieh, and the of modern sewage disposal water management (potable, construction of about 1000 techniques. irrigation, and wastewater) was kilometers of sewage networks. In order to face such difficult entrusted to four public reality, the CDR has been working independent investment • Completion of Al Ghadir since 1992 on different axes: institutions (except for the Litani wastewater pre-treatment plant: 1) Execution of the emergency River which remained under the The construction and equipping of 136 Basic services CDR October 2012 the wastewater pre-treatment plant were completed and the relevant sea outfall rehabilitated at a cost of US$ 10 million. Such plant will serve the southern part of districts of Baabda and Aley, the west- southern part of Greater Beirut and the northern parts of the Shouf district. The plant was put into service in November 1997. • Beirut master wastewater coastal collector project: This project aims to protect the coast extending from Metn to the Shouf district. The project aims to eliminate all existing sea outfalls along the mentioned coastal area by collecting and conveying wastewater to the Dora and Ghadir pre-treatment plants. The conveyor line comprises two sections: the northern section and Wastewater installations in the coastal city of Tripoli the southern section. collection pipes is of 30 km and network for wastewater The northern section, covering the line has 3 pumping stations. transmission to the new treatment about 17 kms of collection pipe, plant. includes Dbayeh-Dora - Ras (* the amount includes a number Beirut-Dora coastal areas, in of contracts still not moneywise • Completion of works in the addition to 5 pumping and lifting closed) construction of Tripoli for stations. All works were • Execution of the first phase of wastewater treatment, at a cost of completed in year 2000 (costing rehabilitation of Beirut 92 million euros, in addition to the about US$ 48 million). This infrastructure, including the relevant sea outfall at a cost of 6 section has been designed to serve wastewater network (sections 1 million euros, funded by the 1.5 million inhabitants of Dora and 2) at a cost of about US$ 25 European Investment Bank (EIB). area by year 2015. million. The project in all its The project covers Tripoli coastal The southern section covering phases aims mainly to construct a area, Al Qalamun, some parts of Carlton-Al Ghadir collector line, new storm water network Koura and Zgharta districts, in which is under completion costing independent of the wastewater addition to the coastal areas of about US$ 13 million, designed to network. Beddawi, Deir Amar and El serve the south western part of Minyeh. Beirut and part of its southern • Completion of the pre-treatment suburb, as well as part of Baabda plant in Saida at a cost of about • Completion of the works district and the Damour-Al Ghadir US$ 21 million funded by Japan mentioned within the Lebanese- line, executed and amounting to Bank for International French Protocol Agreement for about US$ 9.5 million, through Cooperation (JIBC) and execution waste water treatment plants at a funding by the Islamic Bank, of the first phase of the cost of about 56 million euros, the which is designed to serve a major rehabilitation of wastewater works include the construction of part of Aley district and part of networks in Saida and its suburbs waste water treatment plants and Shouf district (more than 100,000 by rehabilitating the existing sea outfalls (for the coastal plants) inhabitants), the length of the network and constructing a new in the following regions: Shouf CDR October 2012 Basic services 137 138 Basic services CDR October 2012 coastal area (Ras en Nabi Younes), Progress of ongoing projects: work is 95% completed. Nabatiyeh area (Sharqiyeh), 1. Protection of the coast against - The construction of wastewater Chekka area, Batroun (ongoing pollution: Lebanon signed several networks for an amount of US$ implementation of the sea outfall) conventions to protect the 6.5 million and a wastewater and Jbeil. The first plant is Mediterranean waters against treatment plant for the coastal area designed to serve a big number of pollution, the most important of Sour for an amount of 31 villages and cities of the coastal being the Barcelona Convention. million euros, funded by the rea of Iqlim el Kharoub; the 2nd The agreements stressed on the European Investment Bank. The serves the town of Nabatiyeh and necessity of treating wastewater plant will serve around 300,000 neighboring vollages, the third and before discharged to the sea in persons and 40% of the work is fourth plants serve the coastal cities and towns with populations achieved until this date towns and villages of Batroun exceeding 100 000. Accordingly - Phase II of infrastructure project district, whereas the fifth serves several projects have been including the sewer network of the coastal area in Jbeil district. prepared for the construction of Beirut city financed by IDB and wastewater collector networks and amounting to about US$ 38.5 • Completion of a waste water treatment plants in the coastal million, and execution of the first treatment plant in Baalback (Iaat) areas of Lebanon. Until now, lot of phase III, in Ashrafieh and at a cost of about US$ 6.35 million execution of treatment plants have Rmeil at a cost of about US$ 10 funded by the IBRD to serve the been carried out with their related million, financed by the Arab city of Baalback and several collector networks as previously Fund for Economic and Social neighboring villages. described and currently works are Development (AFESD); 95% of being carried out in: works are achieved until today. • Maintenance and upgrading of - Beirut coastal area- southern - The northern coast of main wastewater and storm water section of the main wastewater wastewater line collector of networks in the main cities: collector, Carlton-Al Ghadir Tripoli coastal project (Bared- Starting in 1997 pursuant to the section: This project covers the Beddaoui section) including the decision of the cabinet, works construction of two wastewater main collector line and lifting covered periodical maintenance, pumping stations and the stations and main, secondary and repair of wastewater and storm installation of 9 kilometers of related networks, thus serving water piping utilities in the main wastewater sewer lines serving a more than 100000 people and that cities, in addition to limiting the population of 750,000, the through the grant given by the overflows and preventing execution amounts to US$ 13 German government and problems emanating from million. The Islamic Development amounting to 12 million euros; the breakdowns in the existing Bank (IDB) financed the Carlton- grantor, in coordination with the drainage networks. The works Al Ghadir collector. Installation of CDR is managing and executing included cleaning wastewater and the collector lines is complete and the project.