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Modon awards SR600m water, sanitation project for Jeddah Second Industrial City
By Saudi Gazette Staff
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 07 - 01 - 2010

Saudi Industrial Property Authority (Modon) has awarded a major project to Mowah Company for the construction of water, sanitation, industrial drainage, irrigation and wastewater treatment plant at a total capacity of 45,000 m³/day.
In a statement on Wednesday, Modon said the
agreement was signed by Dr. Tawfig Bin Fawzan Alrabiah, director general of Modon.
The company said the project will help to preserve the environment by treating wastewater to be highly pure and reusable in the industry.
Mowah Company as one of the leading companies in the field of water services projects in the Kingdom.
The project is among a number of similar projects that were signed by Modon with a number of other local companies under BOT system, where Modon has succeeded in attracting the private sector to invest in the infrastructure projects and the operation of facilities and establishment of services.
The contract is one of the important projects in Jeddah 2nd Industrial City, where the development process began last year. The project includes establishment of wastewater treatment plant, another plant for the industrial wastewater, establishment of three (drinking, irrigation, and sanitation) water networks as well as pumping stations and a modern control system.
Alrabiah said “the company's investment value 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 on an area of 8 million square meters and will provide different types of water, from which, the industries established in the city and the district cooling shall benefit, which will reflect positively on the factories for which lands are allocated.”
Eng. Sami Ben Fahd Al-Rayes, chairman of Mowah Company, said 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, providing water for irrigation, as well as providing water supply for the district cooling system of the city.
The major project facilities are:
• Network of drinking water on a total length of about 90 kilometers.
• Network of industrial wastewater on a total length of about 70 km.
• The network of irrigation water on a total length of about 80 km.
• Wastewater treatment plant for a total capacity of 45,000 m³/day.
• Drinking treatment plant for a total capacity 35,000 m³/day.
• Water pumping station for a total capacity of 35,000 m³/day.
• A pumping station for water at a capacity of 25,000 m³/day.
• Modern technology system by using SCADA systems for monitoring all the facilities mentioned above.
The project would also bring economic returns to the national economy and local development such as provision of new employment opportunities directly to about 360 people in the construction phase and 66 people in its operational phase, in addition to about 1,000 indirect jobs as an additional benefit to the Saudi market.
Moreover, the project will also contribute to relieve the burden on traffic caused by the movement of heavy trucks (water tanks) on Jeddah roads.
Besdies, the project will reduce or limit pollution and aggravation of sanitation problem of Jeddah City to be re-used in the industry which will help in rationalization of water use.
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 exceeds SR200 billion and approximately 300,000 workers are employed in these cities. Meeting with the investors who applied to obtain industrial lands in Jeddah 2nd Industrial City is under process and lands and investment opportunities are still available in various fields. Investors wishing to invest in the industrial cities are advised to visit Modon website where they can invest in industrial, service, commercial, residential and/or medical sectors. __


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