Construction of East Africa’s largest sewerage treatment plant in near completion.

According to Dr Eng. Silver Mugisha, the managing director of National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC), 95 per cent of the civil and electro-mechanical works in the Bugolobi Nakivubo catchment area are now complete.

The plant will treat 45 million litres of waste water daily and generate 621KW of biogas electricity. The plant will also divert and treat the dry flow from the heavily polluted Nakivubo channel before releasing water into Lake Victoria.

The project encompasses an ultra-modern sewerage treatment plant in Bugolobi, a sewerage pre-treatment plant in Kinawataka, a sewerage pumping station on Kibira road and 31kms of sewer network. The plant uses nuisance free technology and bio-filters and will not smell. It is expected to serve the needs of 850,000 people.

The new plant will serve Naguru, Ntinda, Nakawa, Bugolobi Kyambogo, Kinawataka, Banda, Kasokoso, Butabika and neighbouring areas. This substantially extends piped sewerage services outside the Central Business District, Old Kampala, Kisekka Market area, Kololo, Nakasero and others.

The total project cost for the sewerage treatment plant, the sewers and the sewerage pre-treatment plant is 105 million Euros.

Sam Apedel, the NWSC public affairs manager said NWSC is in a phase of rapid expansion to extend water and sewerage services to more Ugandans.