A MILLION residents in Las Piñas and Muntinlupa stand to benefit from 35 kilometers of conveyance systems to be laid by Maynilad Water Services Inc. (Maynilad) in both metropolitan areas this year.
“It is a challenge for us to facilitate the completion of wastewater projects, given the impact to traffic of laying new conveyance systems. Nonetheless, these projects are important so we can catch harmful effluents before discharge to the environment,” said Ramoncito S. Fernandez, president and CEO of Maynilad.
To ensure the success of these initiatives, the top executive noted they “need the support of local government and the communities to accelerate sewerage-coverage expansion.”
The conveyance systems are designed to catch wastewater generated by households and convey it for treatment to the company’s three sewage treatment plants (STP) in these cities.
Together, they have a combined treatment capacity of 148 million liters of wastewater per day.
The water distributor alloted P1.4 billion for this project from its 2018 capital expenditure of almost P1.7 billion to finance its wastewater projects.
These initiatives are aimed at increasing Maynilad’s sewerage coverage and maintaining the reliability of its wastewater network.
Also included in the company’s outlay this year is P260 million that has been set aside for sewer-network repairs and installation of new sewer-service connections in the West Zone concession area. A balance of P70 million has been budgeted for the maintenance and operations of wastewater facilities to ensure the reliability of the water distributor’s sewer network.
As for other development projects in the pipeline, Maynilad is on track to finish the construction of a new STP in Parañaque this year.
Just recently, it began commissioning its newest STP in Pasay City.
Maynilad operates, maintains and invests in the water and sewerage systems in the cities of Manila (all but portions of San Andres and Santa Ana), Quezon City (west of San Juan River, West Avenue, Edsa, Congressional, Mindanao Avenue, the northern part starting from the districts of Holy Spirit and Batasan Hills), the cities of Makati (west of South Super Highway), Caloocan, Pasay, Parañaque, Las Piñas, Muntinlupa, Valenzuela, Navotas and Malabon and some parts of Cavite province, such as Cavite City, Bacoor, Imus, Kawit, Noveleta and Rosario.
At present, the company’s wastewater infrastructure network includes three septage treatment plants, 19 STPs, 40 pumping stations, 22 lift stations, and more than 500 kilometers of sewer lines.
Across its service area, it has 23 water reservoirs, with a total holding capacity of over 500 million liters of potable water.
It delivers more than 2.55 billion liters of potable water every day to more than 9 million customers.