On the eve of Passover, Gihon Jerusalem Municipal Water Company completed the laying of a 70-meter section of the 125-centimeter diameter sewer pipe beneath Road 1 at the Motza curve, west of the city, using the pipejacking (horizontal drilling) method. The work was carried out without disrupting traffic.
The laying of the section completed the multiyear project to replace the Nahal Soreq main sewage line between Atarot in northern Jerusalem to the Kerem Junction, southwest of the city. The 18-kilometer line cost NIS 50 million to build.
The new sewage line serves Jerusalem's western neighborhoods, the Mevasseret Zion and Givat Zeev local authorities, as well as the Palestinian towns of El Gib, Bir Naballah, and neighborhoods of Ramallah and El Bireh, which send their sewage to the Nahal Soreq treatment plant.
The line carries 45,000 cubic meters of sewage a day. An additional 30,000 cubic meters of sewage from Jerusalem's southern neighborhoods and from Bethlehem and Beit Jallah joins the line at the Kerem Junction. From the Kerem Junction, the line runs a further eight kilometers to the Nahal Soreq sewage treatment plant, which treats 27 million cubic meters of sewage a year. The treated waste water is used for irrigation by Kibbutz Tzora.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on April 7, 2010
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