Discussion runs on renovating city sewage plant

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A discussion about renovating and improving the Central Sewage Plant of Ulaanbaatar was held on November 3. As known, the UB City signed an agreement with the French Artelia Ville&Transport company on design and consulting for this plant's renovation project last July. During the discussion, the feasibility study was presented and reviewed by related officials. The currently operating sewage plant, commissioned in 1964, has a capacity of treating 4,500 cubemeter of waste water per day. The plant enhanced its capacity in 1979 and 1986, to a capacity to treat 150,000 cubemeter of only resident use waste water. The two extensions were made in accordance with the estimated load, however, the disposal load has reached 165-170 thousand cubemeters each day, of which around 40 percent come from factories and technological operations. Because of the excess pollution due to the insufficient sewage capacity, the UB city has been coming up with plans to renew the facilities, reflecting this objective in the Capital City’s General Plan for 2020 and the Development Perspectives until 2030. Present at the event were a deputy mayor for ecology and green growth T.Bat-Erdene, a head of the UB City Investment Department L.Narantuya, also officials from the Water Supply and Sewerage Authority, scholars and water specialists.