Consortium wins Egypt wastewater contract

A consortium of four companies has been awarded a contract to design, supply, build, operate and maintain (DBOM) the El-Hammam agricultural wastewater treatment plant in Egypt

A consortium of four companies has been awarded a contract to design, supply, build, operate and maintain (DBOM) the El-Hammam agricultural wastewater treatment plant in Egypt.

The consortium, comprising of Metito, Hassan Allam, Arab Contractors and Orascom Construction, has been awarded the DBOM contract for the treatment plant, which will have a capacity to treat 6 million cubic metres of water a day. The plant will be the largest of its type in the world.

The project will collect and transport agricultural drainage water from the North of Nile Delta to the plant through a 120-kilometre long course. The treated water will irrigate an area of up to 500,000 feddans west of the Nile Delta area.

The project is part of the government’s strategy to expand Egypt’s agricultural area and develop the Western Desert region.

In April 2020, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi officially inaugurated the Al-Mahsamma agricultural drainage treatment, recycling and reuse plant in the Ismailia governorate of Egypt, which had been developed by a joint venture of Metito Egypt and the local Hassan Allam Construction.

The agricultural run-off project has a water treatment capacity of 1 million cubic metres a day, the largest such project of its type in the world.

The scope of the project included the engineering, construction and operations and maintenance (O&M) for a period of five years.

The treatment plant will enable the irrigation of 70,000 acres of land in the Sinai as part of the government’s aim of creating sustainable urban communities and job opportunities in the area. The water is transferred to the plant from the Ismailia irrigation drainage canal, located west of the Suez canal from two individual pump stations which cross underneath the Suez canal into Srabium siphon.

The water is pumped through the plant’s pump station via eight vertical turbine type pumps, each with a pumping speed of 7,000 cubic metres an hour.