VietNamNet Bridge - HCM City will have 12 sewage treatment plants by 2020, up from its current two. The city wants to borrow nearly $900 million from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to build four more plants.

These plants will be built in the 2016-2020 period, including West Saigon Plant, with a daily capacity of 150,000 m3 and a loan of $513 million; North Saigon Plant, with a daily capacity of 170,000 m3 and a loan of $81 million; Binh Tan, with 180,000 m3 and $225 million; and Tan Hoa-Lo Gom with 300,000 m3 and over $67 million.

Currently, Vietnam’s biggest city has only two wastewater treatment plants: Binh Hung, with a daily capacity of 141,000 m3 and Binh Hung Hoa with a daily capacity of 30,000 m3. These plants can treat just 13% of the total wastewater discharged of 2 million m3 per day in the city.

HCM City plans to have 12 sewage treatment plants, which will be built in the basin of the canals of Nhieu Loc - Thi Nghe, Tau Hu - Ben Nghe, Tan Hoa - Lo Gom, and Tham Luong - Ben Cat.

HCM City also wants to borrow over $3 billion to develop other infrastructure, transport projects, including $500 million to build the metro line 2 (Ben Thanh - Tham Luong), nearly $2 billion for the metro line 5 (Bay Hien intersection - Saigon Bridge), $500m for the Ben Thanh subway station and $300 million for the municipal traffic control center.

Thu Ly