Béni Mered Wastewater Plant
Wastewater treatment + reuse, 51,560 m3/day, 383,000 population equivalent; reuse saves about 600 m3/day in industry alongside urban watering in Blida in Algeria.
The record
- Country
- Algeria
- Location
- Blida
- Coordinates
- 36.528, 2.870
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment + reuse
- Capacity
- 51,560 m3/day, 383,000 population equivalent; reuse saves about 600 m3/day in industry alongside urban watering in Blida
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- ONA (Office National de l'Assainissement)
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- ONA
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 2021
- Commissioned
- 2021-01
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 2021-01
Plant entered service on 2 January
Sources
5 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- ONA, Reutilisation des eaux epurees. ona.dz.
- The Beni Mered plant entered service on 2 January 2021 with 51,560 m3/day and 383,000 population equivalent on activated sludge, serving four districts of Blida; treated water is reused industrially for incinerator furnace cooling and plastics washing, saving about 600 m3/day, and for parks, green spaces and street washing in Blida.
- The same page records the Medea plant at Oued Lahrech, in service from 2010 at 26,000 m3/day and 162,500 population equivalent, irrigating orchards at Ben Chicao.
- ONA, A propos de l'Office National de l'Assainissement. ona.dz.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
ONA is a public industrial and commercial establishment under the water ministry, created in 2001 by executive decree 01-102; it runs 190 treatment plants of 1.9 million m3/day nominal capacity and 72,228 km of sewers across 65 wilayas and 1,169 communes for 34.60 million people, with a national target of reusing 60 per cent of treated water by 2030. Coordinates not recorded: no wastewater plant is tagged at Beni Mered in OpenStreetMap. Coordinates from the OpenStreetMap feature named Station d'epuration de Beni Mered, operator Office National de l'Assainissement, at Guerrouaou in Blida.