The Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe Canal in HCM City (Source: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – The HCM City People’s Committee has approved in-principle to add newcomponents to the second phase of its environmental sanitation project.
The additionalcomponents aim to develop a closed process of treating the city’s sewage andwaste mud and prevent odors from the waste from entering nearby neighbourhoods.
They will beinvested around 78 million USD, a surplus fund made available after the project is underbid which hastotal investment of 504 million USD.
The secondphase of the HCM City Environmental Sanitation Project, which began in 2017,focuses on improving wastewater services for the entire Nhieu Loc – Thi NgheBasin. It is planned for completion by 2023.
The projectinvolves the construction of a wastewater treatment plant in Thanh My Loi Ward,District 2, and a 8km sewerinterceptor which will collect wastewater from Nhieu Loc – Thi Nghe canal inthe districts of Binh Thanh, Go Vap, Tan Binh, Phu Nhuan, 1, 2 and 3 thendischarge into the Dong NaiRiver.
The watertreatment facility is designed to have a daily capacity of 480,000 cu.m. Oncecompleted, wastewater from the basin will be treated by the plant instead ofbeing discharged directly into the Sai Gon River./.
HCM City’s People’s Committee has asked the PM and relevant agencies to approve an extension of the second phase of its environmental sanitation project to 2030 as a foreign contractor has yet to be selected.
Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong and World Bank (WB) Country Director for Vietnam Ousmane Dione on November 22 took a fact-finding trip to the city’s District 2 where the second phase of a WB-funded environmental sanitation project is underway.
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The Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe Canal in HCM City (Source: VNA) 
