Sfax Nord Wastewater Plant
Wastewater treatment, 17,900 m3/day (225,000 population equivalent), designed for an organic load of 8,800 kg BOD5/day in Tunisia.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Tunisia
- Location
- Sfax
- Coordinates
- 34.833, 10.854
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment
- Capacity
- 17,900 m3/day (225,000 population equivalent), designed for an organic load of 8,800 kg BOD5/day
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- ONAS
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Societe de Concession d'Assainissement du Sud Tunisien (SCAST)
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 2004
- Commissioned
- 2004
Record last checked 2026-09-18.
History
- 2004
Plant commissioned north of Sfax
- 2024-01
Public consultation held at the Sfax governorate on the concession
- 2024-03
Environmental and social management plan issued for initial rehabilitation works under the southern sanitation concession
Sources
3 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- ONAS and SCAST, Concession de l'exploitation d'ouvrages d'assainissement collectif, Lot 2 Sud, PGES des travaux initiaux de remise en etat de la STEP de Sfax Nord, March 2024. onas.nat.tn.
- Commissioned 2004, hydraulic capacity 17,900 m3/day for a nominal organic load of 8,800 kg/day, serving Sakiet Ezzit, Sakiet Eddayer, Chihia and Sidi Mansour; coordinates 34 deg 49 min 59.48 sec N and 10 deg 51 min 14.59 sec E; 25 hectare site of which 5 are built; treated effluent discharged through a DN 800 main of 1,900 m on land and a 6,000 m sea outfall; initial rehabilitation works programmed for the first 13 months of the concession, budget for the environmental and social management plan 110,600 dinars; public consultation held at the Sfax governorate on 12 January 2024. Ministere de l'Environnement of Tunisia, ONAS open data, Liste de stations d'epuration (sample years 2021 to 2023). environnement.gov.tn.
- 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.
Gives Sfax Nord a 2004 commissioning, 17,900 m3/day, 8,800 kg BOD5/day and 225,000 population equivalent.