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Started in 2013, the project has not yet been completed due to delays in the release of funds.
It is operational only in Phase I at the Lyari riverbed, where the installation of conduit continues. Phase II in Malir has not yet been initiated.
The S-III project is being delayed due to differences between the federal government and Sindh government over its cost.
Three treatment plants of the Karachi Water & Sewerage Board have remained shut for the past decade, and 450 million gallons of untreated residential and industrial sewage were being released daily into the sea, threatening marine life and creating disturbance in ecological balance.
The project had been envisaged during General Pervez Musharaf’s tenure in 2007. At that time, the cost of the project had been estimated to be Rs 8 billion. It was decided that both governments would equally bear the cost.
The KWSB later informed the federal and provincial governments that all three treatment plants had been closed, asking that funds should be released immediately to start the project.
In 2013, a consultant firm, after carrying out a brief study and making PC-1, said the project would cost Rs32 billion. The federal government expressed concern over the high cost of the project, but it agreed to release the funds on the basis of the approved PC-1.
Sources in the KWSB said that the delay in releasing the funds by the federal government was slowing the development work.
The KWSB has installed a conduit from Mauripur to Yaseenabad. It has to go on till New Karachi.
The sources also confirmed that only 10 percent of development work at the Treatment Plant (TP-I) Haroonabad and TP-III had been completed due to a shortage of funds.
No development work has been carried out at TP-II in Mehmoodabad and TP-IV in Korangi.
If the S-III project is completed soon, it will enable treatment of 480 million gallons of sewage and save the Arabian Sea from pollution.
Detailed narrative description of the project:
This mega project is led by TCI and composed of following key works:
Waste Water Conveyance & Treatment of 2,270,000 m3/Day (500 MGD)
37 kms of RCC BOX CONDUITS size varying from 3.0mx3.0m to 1.5m x1.5m
Double Wall Corrugated P.E Pipes 1200mm Dia 10 Kms
Rising Mains 1200mm Dia MS Line 6.5 kms
Rehabilitation of 2 Nos. Existing Sewerage Treatment Plants
TP-I (Haroonabad-SITE) =100MGD
TP-III (Mehmoodabad) =180 MGD
Construction of 2 Nos. New Sewerage Treatment Plants
TP-IV (Korangi) = 160MGD
TP-VII (Mai Kolachi) = 60MGD
Project serves the entire metropolis of Karachi with 24 million populations and is heavily geared towards improving Environment of Karachi coastline with two major river outfalls. Project curbs nearly all untreated sewage & un-authorized discharges into Arabian Sea via Malir & Lyari Rivers. Planned to cater for next 25 years, the wastewater treatment capacities will be enhanced from 681 Million Liters /Day (MLD) to 2270 MLD.
It is operational only in Phase I at the Lyari riverbed, where the installation of conduit continues. Phase II in Malir has not yet been initiated.
The S-III project is being delayed due to differences between the federal government and Sindh government over its cost.
Three treatment plants of the Karachi Water & Sewerage Board have remained shut for the past decade, and 450 million gallons of untreated residential and industrial sewage were being released daily into the sea, threatening marine life and creating disturbance in ecological balance.
The project had been envisaged during General Pervez Musharaf’s tenure in 2007. At that time, the cost of the project had been estimated to be Rs 8 billion. It was decided that both governments would equally bear the cost.
The KWSB later informed the federal and provincial governments that all three treatment plants had been closed, asking that funds should be released immediately to start the project.
In 2013, a consultant firm, after carrying out a brief study and making PC-1, said the project would cost Rs32 billion. The federal government expressed concern over the high cost of the project, but it agreed to release the funds on the basis of the approved PC-1.
Sources in the KWSB said that the delay in releasing the funds by the federal government was slowing the development work.
The KWSB has installed a conduit from Mauripur to Yaseenabad. It has to go on till New Karachi.
The sources also confirmed that only 10 percent of development work at the Treatment Plant (TP-I) Haroonabad and TP-III had been completed due to a shortage of funds.
No development work has been carried out at TP-II in Mehmoodabad and TP-IV in Korangi.
If the S-III project is completed soon, it will enable treatment of 480 million gallons of sewage and save the Arabian Sea from pollution.
Detailed narrative description of the project:
This mega project is led by TCI and composed of following key works:
Waste Water Conveyance & Treatment of 2,270,000 m3/Day (500 MGD)
37 kms of RCC BOX CONDUITS size varying from 3.0mx3.0m to 1.5m x1.5m
Double Wall Corrugated P.E Pipes 1200mm Dia 10 Kms
Rising Mains 1200mm Dia MS Line 6.5 kms
Rehabilitation of 2 Nos. Existing Sewerage Treatment Plants
TP-I (Haroonabad-SITE) =100MGD
TP-III (Mehmoodabad) =180 MGD
Construction of 2 Nos. New Sewerage Treatment Plants
TP-IV (Korangi) = 160MGD
TP-VII (Mai Kolachi) = 60MGD
Project serves the entire metropolis of Karachi with 24 million populations and is heavily geared towards improving Environment of Karachi coastline with two major river outfalls. Project curbs nearly all untreated sewage & un-authorized discharges into Arabian Sea via Malir & Lyari Rivers. Planned to cater for next 25 years, the wastewater treatment capacities will be enhanced from 681 Million Liters /Day (MLD) to 2270 MLD.
