ECONOMY
Saudi Fund for Development to allocate $35 mln to restoration of Khirdalan`s water supply
Baku, February 21 (AZERTAC). An Azerbaijani delegation headed by deputy chairman of “Azersu” OJSC for foreign investments Ilgar Tagiyev has paid an official visit to Ar-Riyadh to hold discussions with the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) on the project “Credit Agreement on reconstruction and expansion of water supply and sewerage of the city of Khirdalan”.
According to the Azersu OJSC, the Azerbaijani delegation included representatives of Azerbaijan`s Cabinet of Ministers, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Finance met with SFD Technical Director of Asia Department Eng. Mohammed Al-Arifi and SFD chief engineer Mohammad Aldraibi. The meetings focused on financing issues of the project and opinion and suggestions on loan agreement.
The sides prepared the final version of the loan agreement and they signed the protocol about the “Loan agreement for financing the reconstruction and expansion of water supply and sewerage in Khirdalan”. According to the protocol, the Saudi Fund will allocate $35 million for improvement of water supply of Khirdalan.
In accordance with the project that will be launched in the second half of 2013 water supply and sewerage systems of Khirdalan will be reconstructed. Khirdalan will be supplied with drinking water from Jeyranbatan Water Treatment Compound Plants. The water of Jeyranbatan Water Treatment Compound Plants will be transmitted to 3Nos reservoirs with the capacity of 20thousand m3 each - “+82 Masazir”, “+120 Masazir” and “+118Absheron” and from here will be conveyed to the city by gravity.
In the frame of the project water network of totally 159km will be constructed in Khirdalan. The sewerage network of the city will be constructed after operation of new sewerage collector. Note that presently wastewater of the city is transmitted to Hovsan Aeration Station for treatment. In the future the wastewater of the city will be transmitted to water treatment plant with the capacity of 200thousand m3 in Lokbatan. For transmitting of wastewater to this plant by gravity a new collector of 7km is constructed in Khojasan. The construction works are planned to be completed in 2014. Water supply and sewerage systems of more over 100 thousand people will be improved after implementation of the project.