Veolia, through subsidiaries OTV and SADE, has been awarded the contract to design and build an iron removal water treatment plant for Senegal’s water utility, Société Nationale des Eaux du Sénégal (SONES).
The project is part of SONES’ extensive program aimed at substantially increasing the drinking water supply to Dakar and its suburbs, as well as improving the quality of water distributed. Since some of the city’s water comes from boreholes with a high iron content, SONES decided to have an iron removal treatment plant built to improve the quality of that water.
Veolia will design and build a facility with a daily capacity of 40,000 m3 of water. Treatment will consist of raw water aeration, physical-chemical treatment and sand filtration. The water will then be disinfected using chlorine produced on site by electrochlorination.
This success confirms Veolia’s goal of expanding in Senegal and supporting the sustainable development of the country’s water and wastewater sector.
Veolia subsidiary OTV provides design, construction, maintenance and upgrade solutions for water treatment plants and systems. SADE, meanwhile, is the Veolia subsidiary that specializes in the design, construction and maintenance of water distribution systems.
