20 February 2011
MUSCAT -- Philip Wayne, Project Director of Seeb Wastewater Project, under construction by Galfar Engineering and Contracting SAOG, says that the company has so far completed 50 per cent of the project, which is located 30 kilometres east of Muscat International Airport to Al Manoma area and Al Mabila from the west. The project serves 7,700 houses in the Wilayat of Seeb, he said adding that work was progressing as planned.
He said that the constraints the company faces in execution of the project included the random planning of houses and old sections at the project's area. Most houses are linked to each other with no spacious lanes for installation of main pipes or the pipes that can be installed as part of the wastewater network between the houses through ventilation vents, he added, pointing to that pipes for four houses are compiled in one vent linked to the main pipes inside the house.
For so doing, some entrances and roads leading to the house are to be constructed and some interlock has to be removed in addition to cutting of parts of the road and internal roads, he said. This may result in difference in levelling upon restoration of the roads, particularly in the presence of technical problems related to design in some areas. Restoration of such roads may also take time.
Most wastewater main lines are installed at internal roads, open areas or wadis and we have tried our level best to install them at the roadside and not at the middle of roads so dwellers may easily access to and from their houses, he said. The roads are temporarily restored and complete restoration would be upon completion of all installation works, Wayne added. He has urged co-operation of citizens and residents at the project's area, particularly during installation of to and from their houses.
MUSCAT -- Philip Wayne, Project Director of Seeb Wastewater Project, under construction by Galfar Engineering and Contracting SAOG, says that the company has so far completed 50 per cent of the project, which is located 30 kilometres east of Muscat International Airport to Al Manoma area and Al Mabila from the west. The project serves 7,700 houses in the Wilayat of Seeb, he said adding that work was progressing as planned.
He said that the constraints the company faces in execution of the project included the random planning of houses and old sections at the project's area. Most houses are linked to each other with no spacious lanes for installation of main pipes or the pipes that can be installed as part of the wastewater network between the houses through ventilation vents, he added, pointing to that pipes for four houses are compiled in one vent linked to the main pipes inside the house.
For so doing, some entrances and roads leading to the house are to be constructed and some interlock has to be removed in addition to cutting of parts of the road and internal roads, he said. This may result in difference in levelling upon restoration of the roads, particularly in the presence of technical problems related to design in some areas. Restoration of such roads may also take time.
Most wastewater main lines are installed at internal roads, open areas or wadis and we have tried our level best to install them at the roadside and not at the middle of roads so dwellers may easily access to and from their houses, he said. The roads are temporarily restored and complete restoration would be upon completion of all installation works, Wayne added. He has urged co-operation of citizens and residents at the project's area, particularly during installation of to and from their houses.
© Oman Daily Observer 2011
