Water Treatment Project Resumed In Basrah Province
Basrah
Efforts to restore water production on a water treatment plant was resumed recently in Basrah Province of Iraq. The earlier efforts on rebuilding the plant were stopped because of severe security concerns and a threat to personnel by insurgent activity.
Because of the increased security and the rout of insurgency forces out of the area, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have been able to resume their work on the plant. It is one of seven different water projects by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in Basrah Province, and is being constructed at the cost of nearly one point two million dollars.
The plant is located near Al-Zierji and will provide fresh clean drinking water for more than twenty thousand Iraqi citizens. The village of Al-Zierji is a town that is located in the north of Bashrah province. “Al-Zierji will have soon fresh drinking water that will be pumped into their individual homes,” stated Dan Foltz. Foltz is the Engineer in residence with the USACE Bashrah office, Gulf South Region. This region of the USACE’s is tasked to serve the reconstruction of the nine different provinces in the southern part of Iraq.
The engineers have begun to link all the different pipe work between the rebuilt water treatment plant and the village water network, and installed to brand new storage reservoirs. Each of the storage tanks stands over fifteen meters above the ground, and each holds over two hundred cubic meters of drinkable water that has been sterilized and treated with ultra sonic devices.
“We are here to provide oversight for this water contract project,” said Engineer Foltz. “We hold the contractor involved to the standards necessary to meet the specifications and the plans,” stated Foltz. “It is a good project, we are working to help manage and train Iraqi workers to be able start and manage their own engineering projects,” said Foltz.
