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USAID Opens New Wastewater Treatment Plant in Beqaa
April 29, 2009
USAID/Lebanon Mission Director Denise A. Herbol opened the completed $6million dollar wastewater treatment plant in the village of Aitanit in West Beqaa on April 29, 2009. USAID, through their contractor CDM, funded construction of the facility as well as supervision of plant operations and training of the employees who manage this facility through May 2010. The Aitanit wastewater treatment plant has the capacity to treat 5,000 cubic meters of wastewater per day, serving up to 35,000 residents in the villages of Aitanit, Machghara, Baaloul and Qaraoun. The project was implemented in close partnership with the Union of Lake Municipalities, which provided the land, access roads, electricity connection, landscaping and water and telephone connections. This is the waste water treatment plant is the first of this size to come on-line in Lebanon.More Photo of the Week Stories |