Environmental and social impact assessment (EISA) for construction of wastewater network and wastewater treatment unit in al Mawasiarea, southern Gaza strip (pigz-01178)

Al Mawasi area is not served by any wastewater treatment plant. Unconnected households use cesspits and in the current economic situation, they are not being properly emptied. Cesspits have been discharged raw wastewater into the aquifer, and also flooding on the roads.  It is planned to construct Wastewater Treatment network and treatment unit for the areas Al Laham and Al Malalha at Al Mawasi, which will treat the wastewater generated from the households of around 320 households. The proposed intervention by Action Against Hunger will directly impact the sanitation and hygiene conditions of targeted households in Al Laham and Al Malalha. The intervention will include the following components:

1. Construction of wastewater network with individual house connections.

2. Closing used cesspits by evacuation with suction trucks, cleaned and then filled with sand.

3. Construction of wastewater treatment unit using an advanced Sequence Batch Rector (SBR) system, which is an activated sludge treatment method.

4.Storage tank is to store the treated effluent to be used pumped into sand filters

5. Construction of a trunk line connected to the storage tank with submersible pump

6. Community awareness campaigns to improve practices and to increase knowledge relating to hygiene, nutrition, women's right and the division of labour in the household.

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LOCATION : Gaza -Al Mawasi Area

STATUS : Done Finished in:2018

BUDGET : 13000

CLIENT : Action Against Hunger (AAH)

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ENFRA Team prepared ESIA which was an instrument that involves examining the project’s technical, environmental, socio-cultural, institutional, historical and political context, and stakeholders’ views and priorities. ENFRA assess the client to set a mitigation and monitoring plan to tackle the negative environmental and social impacts and defines the institutional responsibilities for implementing these measures. This ESIA came in order to:

  1. Defining the possible environmental and social impacts of the infrastructural sub-components;
  2. Detailing the possible environmental and social impacts of constructing the wastewater system (wastewater network; wastewater treatment unit; and the irrigation system), including system efficiency and effectiveness;
  3. To manage, mitigate, and monitor any possible negative impacts during the design, construction and operational phases of the project; and enhancing positive impacts.

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