TUNISIA: ONAS launches works to extend the Sud Méliane wastewater treatment plant

The Tunisian government has just launched the rehabilitation and extension works of the Sud Méliane wastewater treatment plant in Rades. The project implemented by the National Sanitation Office (ONAS) is financed by the European Union (EU), the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the French Development Agency (AFD).

The rehabilitation and extension work on the Sud Méliane wastewater treatment plant has begun. The project was recently launched during a tour of Kamel Doukh, the Tunisian Minister of Equipment, Housing and Infrastructure in the Greater Tunis area. It was in the presence of the French Ambassador to Tunisia André Parant and the European Union Ambassador Marcus Cornaro.

The rehabilitation and extension work in progress should increase the capacity of the Sud Méliane wastewater treatment plant to 90,000 m3 per day. The plant currently has a capacity of 37,500 m3 per day. These effluents come from the southern suburbs of the capital Tunis. The works also include the construction of an anaerobic digestion system for the settling sludge, as well as the valorisation into biogas.