Africa-Press – Angola. The deadline for completing the first phase of works on the new water supply system for the city of Ndalatando, Cuanza Norte, has been extended to October this year.
The completion of the first phase of the project, which began in September 2021, was scheduled for the end of February, with a budget of 22 million 656 thousand and 856 US dollars, including the second phase, financed by the World Bank.
The information was provided to the press, this Monday, in Lucala, by the person responsible for the company in charge of supervising the project, Mário Cabral.
The works currently register a level of physical execution of 72 percent and 77 percent of financial execution.
Mário Cabral justified the extension of the deadline with the lack of demining of the land where the infrastructures are being implemented and payments from the World Bank.
He pointed to the end of October this year as the new indicative date for the completion of the first phase works.
He explained that the water collection and treatment plant could be completed within three months, while the pipeline is completed.
He added that there are some delays in the construction work of two reservoirs in Ndalatando, with a capacity of 1,500 cubic meters each and the connecting pipelines that will be built in the coming months.
In turn, the governor, João Diogo Gaspar, stated that the completion of the first phase of the project will strengthen the supply capacity and increase the supply period, going from two to seven hours/day, in Ndalatando.
He added that the completion of this phase will allow for more water to be injected into the current distribution system, until the end of the second phase of the project, creating a positive impact on the lives of Ndalatando city dwellers.
When it comes into operation, scheduled for November 2025, the new system will deliver 12 thousand 300 cubic meters of raw water from the Lucala River to the Ndundu-ya-Mutulu Treatment Station, being implemented in the vicinity of the catchment.
The liquid is then pumped through a cast iron pipeline to Ndalatando and Lucala.
The system will benefit 182 thousand inhabitants in Ndalatando, 21 thousand and 500 in Lucala and 10 thousand and 500 inhabitants, along the route of the pipeline to Ndalatando, in another pipeline on the opposite route of the pipeline.
This phase includes the construction of a water intake with a capacity of 660 cubic meters/hour, a raw water lifting pipeline, made of cast iron DN 600 C30, over a length of one thousand and 516 meters, from the intake to the water treatment plant. (ETA).
It also provides for an ETA sized for 625 cubic meters/hour, two treated water reservoirs, one with three thousand and 500 cubic meters of capacity and the other with two thousand and 500 cubic meters, a pumping station with a capacity of 594 cubic meters/hour. hour.
There are also two pipes, one for treated water, made of DN 500 C30 cast iron, 33,565 meters long, and another for treated water, made of DN600 C30 cast iron, 6,74 meters long, among others.
It also includes the extension of the network to supply the new general hospital, under construction in the town of Kirima do Meio.
The project, whose definitive completion is scheduled for the end of 2025, will include, in the second phase, the installation of 15 thousand home connections.
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