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Two key infrastructure projects - a traffic tunnel and a sewage network and treatment project, both located in the capital city of Mosul in Iraq’s Nineveh governorate are on track for completion in 2023 and 2024 respectively, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Planning said.
Abdul Zahra Al-Hindawi told Zawya Projects that the sewage project, on The Right Coast, is 80 percent complete and is expected to be fully completed in the second half of 2024. The project involves the construction of a modern sewerage system to collect and treat domestic wastewater and rainwater for reuse in agriculture, replacing the prevalent septic tank system.
Al-Hindawi said the project includes two wastewater treatment plants of 100,000 cubic metres per day capacity each with provision for a third station in the future, a 24-km trunk sewer line, and a 19-km storm water drainage network with a secondary lifting station.
He said the Sennacherib Tunnel project for vehicular traffic, located in the Al-Faisaliyah area on The Left Coast, has reached 97 percent completion rate, and is expected to be opened to traffic in the fourth quarter of 2023. The project comprises a two-lane tunnel with a length of 663 metres, a width of 18 metres and a height of more than five meters.
(Writing by Majda Muhsen; Editing by Anoop Menon)
