US/French team scoops Wadi Main water project

03 October 2003
A joint venture between Morganti, the US affiliate of Athens-based Consolidated Contractors International Company (CCC), and France's Ondeo Degrement signed on 28 September the contract to design, build and operate the $125 million Wadi Main, Zahra and Mujib water treatment plant. The client is the Ministry of Water & Irrigation.

Under the contract, the consortium, which also includes Metcalf & Eddy of the US, will build a 55 million-cubic-metre-a-day water treatment plant six kilometres north of the Dead Sea. It will also construct a 40-kilometre-long, 1,200-millimetre-diameter pipeline to the Nabouq reservoir, close to the international airport in Amman, to carry the treated spring water (MEED 16:5:03).

The design and build phase is scheduled to last 26 months. The consortium will then operate the facility for a further two years. The project is funded by a $98 million grant from the US Agency for International Development and $27 million from the government. The Morganti/Ondeo team is also the contractor on the Kherbet al-Samra water project.

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