Modon awards BOT contract worth SR600 million for water and sanitation infrastructure in Jeddah 2nd Industrial City
H.E. Dr. Tawfig bin Fawzan Alrabiah, the Director General of Saudi Industrial Property Authority (MODON) signed a network construction contract for water, sanitation, industrial drainage, irrigation and a 45,000 m³/day wastewater treatment plant in the Jeddah 2nd Industrial city. The BOT contract was signed with Mowah Company, one of the leading companies in the field of water services in Saudi Arabia. The project includes establishment of wastewater treatment plant, establishment of three (drinking, irrigation, and sanitation) water networks, industrial drainage network, pumping stations and a modern control system.
Dr. Alrabiah said: "The company's investment in this project is SR600 million, while the expected time frame for the completion of the project is three years in its first phase. The project will cover the needs of factories in Jeddah 2nd industrial city which is spread across an area of eight million square metres and will provide different types of water, from which the industries established in the city and district cooling shall benefit."
The chairman of Mowah Company Eng. Sami Ben Fahd Al-Rayes said that the project provides infrastructure services for the new factories which are expected to benefit from drinking water and industrial water supplies along with sewage disposal, irrigation water as well as water for the district cooling system of the city.
Key project highlights are:
- Drinking water network: 90 kilometres
- Industrial wastewater network: 70 kilometres
- Irrigation water network: 80 kilometres
- Wastewater treatment plant: 45,000 m³/day.
- Drinking treatment plant: 35,000 m³/day.
- Water pumping stations: 35,000 m³/day and 25,000 m³/day
- SCADA systems for monitoring all the facilities
This project is expected to create direct employment for 360 people in the construction phase and 66 people in its operational phase, in addition to about 1,000 indirect jobs. The project will help relieve the traffic burden caused by the movement of water tanks on Jeddah roads. Furthermore, it will reduce or limit pollution and aggravation of sanitation problem of Jeddah city, by treating and re-using sewage in industry.
MODON currently oversees 18 existing industrial cities in various regions of the Kingdom (Riyadh 1 & 2, Jeddah 1 & 2, Dammam 1 & 2, Makkah, Qassim, Ahsa, Madinah, Assir, Al Jouf, Tabuk, Hail, Najran, Al-Kharj, Jazan, and Ar'ar. The investments in these cities exceed SR200 billion and approximately 300,000 workers are employed in these cities.
