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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.

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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

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.

  1. ONA, Reutilisation des eaux epurees. ona.dz.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. ONA, A propos de l'Office National de l'Assainissement. ona.dz.
  5. 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.