• Maynilad fast-tracks Parañaque sewerage

West Zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services Inc. is speeding up the Paranaque sewer network project (SNP) that will benefit 516,000 people in nine of 16 barangays in the city.

Since Paranaque became a municipality in 1975, water supply has been a problem for its households and subdivisions, after a huge private subdivision in the city refused to allow Maynilad to take over its water supply and distribution.

Paranaque Mayor Edwin Olivarez said 95 subdivisions in the city will also benefit with the completion of the multi-million-peso project by October this year.

The project involves the laying of about 65 kilometers of sewer pipes with diameter sizes ranging from 200 mm to 1,500 mm.

Olivarez said the city’s sewer network will catch, collect, and convey wastewater generated by households in Barangays La Huerta, San Dionisio, BF Homes, Don Bosco, Marcelo Green Village, Moonwalk, San Antonio, and San Isidro to Maynilad’s sewage treatment plant.

This will ensure the proper removal of harmful elements from the wastewater, thus protecting community health and the environment, said Olivarez.

“Laying new wastewater infrastructure is in line with our mandate to help reduce pollution loading into river systems. We thank Parañaque City for its support of our effort to meet this mandate,” Maynilad president Ramoncito Fernandez said.

The water company also invested billions of pesos for wastewater management projects this year, designed to treat wastewater collected from the septic tanks of its customers in the southern Greater Manila Area, particularly the residents of Parañaque, Las Piñas, Muntinlupa and Cavite.

Likewise, Maynilad is constructing six new sewage treatment plants (STPs) in various parts of its concession area to expedite the provision of sewerage and sanitation services for its customers.

These new facilities—located in Muntinlupa (Cupang and Tunasan), Pasay, Parañaque, Valenzuela, and Cavite City—will have a combined treatment capacity of 269 million liters per day (MLD). The accompanying 125-kilometer conveyance systems of these new STPs are also currently being installed.

Once completed, these new wastewater facilities will be able to serve approximately 1,475,000 Maynilad customers, collecting and treating wastewater to render it safe for discharge to receiving bodies of water.