MWC’s P721M project seen completed in ’12
Manila Water Co. Inc. said its P721.5-million Southeast Transmission Water Mains Project was 70-percent completed and would be fully operational in 2012.
In a statement, the company said the project would convey 400 million liters per day of clean water to more than 200,000 residents in four cities in Metro Manila and several towns in Rizal.
The Southeast Transmission Mains Project is divided into three packages including the laying of almost 10 kilometers of large-diameter steel pipes from the Balara Treatment Plant in Quezon City, which will cross the intersection of Marcos Highway and traverse the whole stretch of Imelda Avenue up to Ortigas Extension in Cainta, Rizal.
Manila Water partnered with Phillip’s Technical Consulting Corp. (PTCC) and the Engineering and Development Corporation of the Philippines (Edcop) for the project.
On March 2, 2009, Manila Water, PTCC and Edcop started preparing the feasibility study, detailed engineering design and the bid documents for the construction of the project that will further improve water service delivery to the municipalities of Cainta, Binangonan and Taytay, and the cities of Taguig, Pasig, Marikina and Antipolo.
The approved alignment after detailed design will incorporate engineering interventions to address potential ground rapture or displacement as it will cross the active West Valley Fault for the region from Balara Filter Plant to Marikina River.
Additional features to minimize operational and maintenance concerns included provision for galvanic cathodic protection to adapt to the water-logged environment traversed by the proposed transmission mains line.
The project will address the increasing supply requirement in the eastern part of Manila Water’s concession that is currently being supplied by the main PG-6 line, which is already operating to almost twice its capacity to meet the current demand in the expansion areas of Marikina, Pasig, Taguig and parts of Rizal province as far as Rodriguez in the north and Binangonan in the south.
