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CWASA-SEWERAGE
CWASA to take Tk 3,800cr project to ease sewage problem
CHATTOGRAM, Oct 3, 2018 (BSS) – Chattogram Water Supply and Sewerage
Authority (CWASA) is going to implement sewerage treatment project (STP)
involving Taka 3,800 aims at solving sewerage disposal problems in the port
city.
Managing Director of CWASA Engineer AKM Fazlullah said the project is
likely to be approved in the meeting of Executive Committee of the National
Economic Council (ECNEC) scheduled to be held on October 9.
After completion of the project in 2023, there will be no need of septic
tanks in any building in the city as all household septic dirt will directly
go to sewerage treatment plant rather Karnaphuli River, he said.
He said, “The sewage treatment plant will be set up on 165 acres of land
in city’s Halishahar area.” Since its inception in 1963, the CWASA did not
take measures to solve sewage problem, he said, adding that it is Awami
League government which took different commendable initiatives to turn the
city into a proper commercial capital.
Fazlullah said once people of the port city suffered from water crisis
and the authorities concerned managed to solve the problem.
“Now, we are proceeding towards sewerage treatment plant,” he added.
Mohammad Ariful Islam, an engineer of CWASA, told BSS that the STP will
be implemented in phases dividing the city into six zones.
A total of six plants will be installed in the zones, he added.
Director of Department of Environment, Chattogram chapter Azadur Rahman
Mallik said, “It was necessary to construct sewerage treatment plant which
could not be done due to lack of proper planning.”
He said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina while inaugurating the Karnaphuli
Water Treatment Plant in Chattogram on March last year directed CWASA
authority to formulate sewerage treatment project.
He said currently household mud and wastage are being dumped in
Karnaphuli and Halda Rivers causing severe pollution.
Currently, Chittagong City Corporation collecting garbage from
households dumps those in Munir Nagar and Jalalabad dumping grounds.
Chittagong Municipality which began its journey with formation of
Chittagong Municipal Committee in 1863 introduced drainage system in the
city, but had not taken steps for removing sewerage garbage.
Besides, human excreta and other wastage of septic tanks of nearly 70
lakh people of city directly fall into the river Karnaphuli.
One lakh out of six lakh slum families have no access to sanitary latrine
and they discharge their excreta through ‘kucca’ makeshift latrine set up
alongside various water bodies.
BSS/SPL/MAM/SKB/RY/1825 hrs