Damascus-Sana
The Directorate of Water Resources in Damascus Countryside put the first pumping station in the Adra treatment plant into service after rehabilitating it to irrigate more than 9 thousand hectares of Eastern Ghouta lands.
The director of water resources in Damascus countryside, Eng. Mahmoud Al-Ka'r, explained to a SANA representative that the first pumping station and the two channels “MC and BC1” had been rehabilitated to pump the available treated water resulting from the Adra treatment plant to irrigate an area of 9,224 hectares of Eastern Ghouta lands as part of the wastewater reuse project. Health treatment from Adra station.
According to Al-Ka'r, the project consists of four pumping stations. The first station in Adra, the two channels "MC and BC1" and the second and third stations in Al-Rihan will be rehabilitated. Coming to cover quench the entire design space of the project.
The project, which was out of service as a result of the terrorist attacks, aims to reuse treated wastewater in the Adra plant to irrigate about 18,700 hectares of eastern Ghouta lands in the Damascus countryside.
The General Director of the General Sewerage Company in Damascus Governorate, Eng. Bassam Askiriya, indicated that the Adra plant is currently processing 100,000 cubic meters per day, which is a quarter of its total capacity of 360,000 cubic meters per day.
Askeriyah stated that the plan to rehabilitate the station continues with three tracks in parallel and directly: the first is to remove the effects of terrorism and implement reforms at the lowest costs and according to the available capabilities, the second to restore it as it was before its exit from service through the implementation of partial projects, and the third to rehabilitate it with its modernization and development.
Ali Ajeeb