With the approval of a $150 million IDB loan the financing for Phase I of the sanitation project of the bay in Arraiján and La Chorrera in Panama West now amounts to $553 million.

The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a $150 million loan for the Panama Sanitation Program (PSP) to carry out the first phase of the Sanitation Project in Arraiján and La Chorrera.

The project involves the construction of 324 kilometers of collection networks, more than 16,000 household connections, 65 kilometers of sewers and the interconnection of the whole system.

The IDB and the authorities at the PSP stated that they expect to handle the wastewater from approximately 49,000 homes which is currently discharged into rivers in these areas, and will eventually be treated in the treatment plant to be built in the area of Caimito, which will have a treatment capacity of 1.35 m3 / s.

The $150 million in financing from the IDB will be part of a total investment of $553 million for the first phase and will be used, among other things, for the construction of the first module of the treatment plant, construction of the interceptor sewage system as well as for the renovation of sewers, improvements in the sewer system and the first domestic connections.