PORT Moresby residents will expect uninterrupted water supply following the installation of an additional Clarifier to act as a back-up or redundancy.
Water PNG Limited has signed a K58.7 million project contract for the construction of an additional Clarifier, at the Mt. Eriama Water Treatment Plant in Port Moresby.
Water PNG has adapted the FIDIC Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Contract to enable the effective execution of the project by the contractor, XYZ Construction (PNG) Limited.
The proposed Clarifier will come online after 19 months of the construction work. The Clarifier, also known as the mixing tank or the settling tank, will hold an estimated capacity of 100 million litre of water per day (MLD), and will support the three existing clarifiers that currently hold 30MLD, 60MLD and 90MLD, respectively.
The new Clarifier will be constructed south of the existing clarifiers at Mt. Eriama, and will serve as a redundant clarification tank.
This means when one of the three clarifiers goes offline for maintenance work, the proposed clarification tank will carry on the normal process of mixing and cleaning raw water, to ensure there is no disruption to water production at the Plant, and the overall distribution of water supply to the city residents.
The project contract was signed between Water PNG Limited and the EPC contractor XYZ Construction (PNG) Limited, on the evening of Tuesday 03rd May, 2022.
Present to witness the milestone event were the executive management team from Kumul Consolidated Holdings (KCH).
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