Common wastewater treatment plant expansion project for Seethawaka EPZ

• Move aimed at increasing capacity of plant to 15,000 cubic meters per day
• Capacity of existing wastewater treatment plant 9,500 cubic meters

Cabinet last week approved a proposal by the Minister of Industrial Export and Investment Promotion Prasanna Ranatunga to implement the ‘Augmentation of the Common Wastewater Treatment Plant’ project at the Seethawaka Export Processing Zone, to develop the plant’s capacity to 15,000 cubic meters per day.

The Seethawaka Export Processing Zone, which was inaugurated in 1999 and handed over to the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka in 2001, comprises 28 enterprises and has generated around 23,300 job opportunities.

Although the capacity of the existing common wastewater treatment plant is 9,500 cubic meters per day, the industries’ wastewater discharge amounts to approximately 12,400 cubic meters per day.

As the existing common wastewater treatment plant is not adequate, it has been found that the capacity of the common wastewater plant must be augmented immediately in order to avoid any adverse environmental and health issues.