VNExpress-July 15
The largest wastewater facility in Southeast Asia, Ho Chi Minh City’s Nhieu Loc – Thi Nghe Plant, is on schedule and nearly halfway complete, projects managers have announced. Located in the commercial hub’s “city within a city” – Thu Duc City – and near the confluence of the Saigon and Soai Rap rivers, the plant’s capacity of 480,000 cubic meters per day will treat all domestic wastewater in the six central districts of the southern metropolis – Districts 1, 2, 3, Binh Thanh, Phu Nhuan, and Tan Binh. Construction on the VND6-trillion (US$233 million) facility began in 2020 and appears to be right on schedule for completion in June 2025. The plant is part of the second phase of HCMC’s Environmental Sanitation Project funded entirely by the municipal public budget. The larger $524-million-project’s master plan includes eight construction packages, the largest of which is the water treatment center. Its treated wastewater will be discharged into the Saigon River. The project spans 39 hectares of filter systems, sludge treatment tanks, pump stations, drainage pipes, embankments, and an operations building. hese wastewater treatment tanks, the plant’s most crucial components, have taken on their basic shape. According to the project’s managers at the HCMC Urban Project Management Board, the plant will apply advanced biological treatment technology, using mobile carriers for microorganisms to remove organic substances from the wastewater. The wastewater will first be pumped into a biological treatment tank before passing through cleaning and sedimentation tanks. As a final step, ultraviolet (UV) light exposure will disinfect the water. According to the Ho Chi Minh City Urban Infrastructure Construction Investment Project Management Board, the entire city’s current total urban domestic wastewater treatment capacity of 644,000 cubic meters per day meets only about 40% of the metropolis’ daily wastewater volume. Read more at: https://e.vnexpress.net/photo/environment/southeast-asias-largest-wastewater-plant-halfway-done-in-hcmc-4770575.html
