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process 300,000 m³ of waste water per day. A sewage water pumping station and pumping lines are being created as a second project at a cost 580,000,000 AED. A sewage pumping station and the pumping lines linking up to the main treatment plant at Jebel Ali are being built at a cost of 191,000,000 AED. In 2011, the Jebel Ali Sewage Treatment Plant was selected as the Water Reuse Project of the Year as part of the annual
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Eagle Electromechanical / Al Hijaz Mechanical Equipment has designed, built and operated more than 100 wastewater treatment projects in the UAE since 1985. These include the MBR, such as in the 25,000 cmd Dubai Sports City plant, a 30,000 cmd extended aeration plant in the Gardens, 12,500 cmd SBR in
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The sewage plant in Al Awir is one of the main areas of wastewater treatment in Dubai. It has been significantly expanded in recent years. The first phase of the plant has a designed capacity of 260,000 m³ per day but by December 2007, it was dealing with almost 500,000 m³ per day. The second phase
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infrastructure to its limits. Sewage from areas of Dubai not connected to the municipal piped network at the time was collected daily from thousands of holding tanks across the city and driven by tankers to the city's only sewage treatment plant at Al-Awir. Because of the long queues and delays,
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plant were completed in April 2009 and it has begun operations, easing pressure on the Al Awir plant. The second phase was completed in October 2010. The odour treatment plant was also completed. The project cost over 1,500,000,000 AED, and covers an area of 670 hectares. It has the capacity to
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Dubai's municipality says that it is committed to trying to catch the culprits and has imposed fines of up to $ 25,000 as well as threatening to confiscate tankers if dumping persists. The municipality maintains that test results show samples of the water are "within the standard".
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of the plant added 65,000 m³ of capacity and was commissioned in January 2008. The third phase of the plant was under study in 2007 and adds an extra 80,000 m³ capacity.
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In 2013 it was reported that the Jebel Ali plant receives 70% of sewage through the city's sewage network, while the remaining 30% comes from sewage trucks.
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has expanded capacity. Since then, Dubai had 1,200 km of sewerage pipeline network. An additional 80 km was added in 2011 to connect
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or behind dunes in the desert, resulting in much controversy. Sewage dumped into storm drains flowed directly into the
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During Dubai's economic boom in the 2000s, the city's growth meant that it was stretching its existing
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Concordia operates a sewage treatment plant serving "The Galleries" development in downtown
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sewage treatment plant that treats sewage collected from the Sky Courts complex.
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Palm trees irrigated with treated wastewater in a wetland of Dubai Municipality
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A new, multi-billion-Dhs sewerage system is expected to be completed by 2025.
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several tanker drivers resorted to illegally dumping the raw sewage into
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Dubai Municipality maintains two main sanitation plants, one in
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Dubai
United Arab Emirates
Dubai Municipality
Dubai Industrial City
Al Awir
Jebel Ali
Jebel Ali
MEED
membrane bioreactor
Palm Jumeirah
Dubai International City
sequencing batch reactor
Jebel Ali
sewage treatment
storm drains
Persian Gulf
typhoid
hepatitis
Water supply and sanitation in Abu Dhabi
"Wastewater Reuse in Arab Countries-ACWUA Report"
"System Overflow"
"Dubai Industrial City in infrastructure milestone"
"Laying waste to inefficiency"
the original
"Sewage Solution"
"Third Al-Aweer sewage plant planned"
the original
"New Dubai areas get municipality sewage system"
"MWH Global Wins the United Arab Emirates Water Reuse Project of the Year"

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