P2-B sewage plant to rise in Las Piñas city

Maynilad Water Services Inc. said on Thursday that it had broken ground for a P2-billion sewage treatment plant in Las Piñas City as part of its efforts to comply with environmental laws.

Scheduled for completion in 2021, the facility dubbed the Las Piñas Water Reclamation Facility will be Maynilad’s largest sewage treatment plant in terms of capacity, at about 88 million liters of wastewater per day.

The project will use anaerobic/anoxic/oxic technology to remove pollutants from wastewater to be collected from about 600,000 customers in 20 barangays in the city before its discharge to the Zapote River, which eventually flows out to Manila Bay.

This sewage treatment plant “will further boost (our) sewerage coverage expansion, in line with efforts to reduce pollution loading in the Manila Bay,” Maynilad said in a statement.

The plant is located on a 2.25-hectare lot on Alabang-Zapote Road in Barangay Pamplona Uno.

Since taking over the west zone concession area of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System, Maynilad’s investments has enabled the company to increase sewerage coverage from only 6 percent in 2007 to 20 percent by end of 2018. It intends to achieve full coverage by the end of the concession period in 2037.

Maynilad is also building additional wastewater treatment facilities in Valenzuela and Cavite City as well as Tunasan and Cupang in Muntinupa.