Bahrain is likely to award tenders for two major sewerage network projects in the North Town area by the second quarter of 2015, said a senior official.

The Ministry of Works, Municipalities and Urban Planning has completed the designs and tendering documents for the implementation of the project in the North Town, where contractors were qualified and bids were invited in a limited tender.

Technical offers are presently being evaluated, revealed Khalifa Al Mansoor, the sanitary engineering assistant undersecretary at the ministry.

Al Mansoor said the first project involves implementation of a sewage treatment plant with the capacity of 40,000 cu m per day, expandable to 60,000 cu m per day, a tri-treatment unit to produce treated water for irrigation purposes, sludge management to fulfill technical requirements and a 4.5-km-long emergency line flowing to the sea.

The scope of work also includes all civil, electrical and mechanical works, besides setting up a tank for the collection of treated sewage water and the main pumping station, he stated.  

The second project comprises installation of about 1.7-km-long main sewerage lines besides transfer lines using the micro-tunnelinlg methodology extending 5.7 km in addition to main transfer lines extending 8.2 km, added Al Mansoor.-TradeArabia News Service