EBRD mulls $36.3m loan for wastewater treatment facility in Amman
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is considering a loan of up to €30 million ($36.3 million) to finance the construction of a new 24,750 cubic metre per day wastewater treatment facility in Amman, Jordan.
The project would also replace and relocate an existing facility currently co-located at the Ain Ghazal Treatment Plant, as well as a two-year phased operational period to ensure sustainability of the investment.
The new facility, to be constructed at a total cost of €60 million, will be located at Al Ghabawi and will serve approximately 5.5 million people.
The project will develop a greenfield wastewater treatment plant on the outskirts of Amman for the treatment of septage collected from those parts of Amman that are not connected to the sewage network.
The new wastewater treatment plant will replace the existing and now inadequate facility at Ain Ghazal. The Water Authority Jordan will construct a new dedicated septic tank wastewater treatment facility at the more remote location of Al Ghabawi and afterwards will decommission the septic tank facility at Ain Ghazal Treatment Plant.
