Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will build the capacity of Eda Ranu to operate the Port Moresby Sewerage System Upgrading Project (POMSSUP).
In Port Moresby today, JICA, Eda Ranu and other relevant government stakeholders launched the first Joint Coordinating Committee Meeting for Port Moresby Wastewater Management Improvement Project.
Eda Ranu chief operating officer, Dr Fifaia Matainaho told Loop PNG that POMSSUP will be completed in 2018, and Eda Ranu must have the expertise to operate it because it will me more advance then the current sewerage treatment plants in the National Capital District.
“In here we are talking about, come 2018, will Eda Ranu be able to handle, understand, operate and maintain the plant?” Dr Matainaho asked.
“At the moment we have sewerage pond at Waigani and Morata using a biological system and it’s not advance.”
The POMSSUP is composed of construction of the Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) in Kila Kila that can treat 18,400 cubic meter of water per day, the 13 km trunk sewer, the 15 km branch sewer, and construction/rehabilitation of 13 pumping stations. It will also implement awareness activities to workers and community members where they can learn effective and practical sanitation and hygiene practices. Furthermore, the POMSSUP is a symbolic project for PNG and Japan as it is implemented in close collaboration between the two governments.