Tripoli Wastewater Treatment Plant
Wastewater treatment, 135,000 m3/day design capacity; only preliminary treatment in service in Lebanon.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Lebanon
- Location
- Tripoli
- Coordinates
- 34.456, 35.843
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment
- Capacity
- 135,000 m3/day design capacity; only preliminary treatment in service
- Capital cost
- US$94 million
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Council for Development and Reconstruction
- Contractor
- Suez (treatment plant); Butec (sea outfall)
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- European Investment Bank loan approved 1997 for the plant; a further EUR 92.3 million signed in 2019 for the Greater Tripoli Basin Wastewater Networks, of which EUR 74 million loan and EUR 18.3 million Economic Resilience Initiative grant
- Award or start year
- 1997
- Commissioned
- 2009
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 1997
European Investment Bank approves financing for the treatment plant
- 2003
Construction starts
- 2009
Construction completed with the plant and a 1.6 km sea outfall
- 2019-11
EIB signs EUR 74 million for the Greater Tripoli Basin Wastewater Networks on 11 November
- 2019-12
EIB signs an EUR 18.3 million grant on 2 December
- 2023-10
Investigative reporting finds the plant still performing preliminary treatment only
Sources
9 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Daraj, Sanctions, Conditions, and Contracting Companies: The Challenges Tripoli's Wastewater Treatment Plant Has Faced So Far (5 Oct 2023). daraj.media.
- The plant was constructed by the French Suez Group under a contract with the Council for Development and Reconstruction to serve 1 million people with a treatment capacity of 135,000 m3/day, the contract totalling around 94.6 million USD with 77.4 million from the EIB and 17.2 million from the CDR; Butec built the sea outfall.
- Daraj, Two Decades and 120 Million Euros Later, Tripoli's Wastewater Treatment Plant Barely Functions (4 Oct 2023). daraj.media.
- Fourteen years after completion the facility performs only preliminary treatment; the project began in 2003 and was completed in 2009; the sea outfall extends 1.6 km.
- Both articles print the required inflow as 60 m3, an evident unit slip for thousands, so no inflow figure is carried here.
- European Investment Bank, Greater Tripoli Basin Wastewater Networks (project 20170963). eib.org.
- Promoter the Conseil de Developpement et de Reconstruction; total cost about EUR 107 million; EUR 74,000,000 signed 11 November 2019 and EUR 18,300,000 on 2 December 2019; the networks will improve sanitation for some 900,000 inhabitants.
- Journalismfund Europe, Tripoli Wastewater Plant (6 Dec 2023). journalismfund.eu.
- 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.
Records that the plant operates at minimum capacity for want of inflow and connections. Coordinates from OpenStreetMap. Condition after December 2023 was not established.