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Batam’s IPAL project expected to be completed by 2024
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adan Pengusahaan Batam (BP Batam) has completed the construction of a wastewater treatment plant (IPAL) as part of a solution to cope with the clean water crisis that frequently hits Batam, which relies on rainwater as a clean water source.
The IPAL project aims to treat domestic wastewater from activities such as restroom usage, food preparation and laundry, and convert it into clean water before being returned to a reservoir. Aside from that, the IPAL can also produce organic fertilizer utilized for the regreening of Batam city.
The domestic wastewater coming from community housing, hotels, apartments and other buildings with various service activities is processed into more useful products. The treated domestic wastewater is streamed to the reservoir as raw water and can be utilized for other activities.
Under the IPAL system, the wastewater is streamed through pipelines. The waste coming from every house is streamed to five pump stations through which the water is filtered to be free of waste and sediment. From the pump stations the filtered water is streamed back to the IPAL Bengkong Sadai.
Two different pipelines will be connected to each house, one of which is connected to the front house, or beside the drainage, with 10,000 pipelines already installed in the first phase; and another one connected to a septic tank, kitchen and laundry room will be installed in the second phase.
A pipeline that streams faeces from the lavatory and another one that streams laundry wastewater and kitchen waste will be installed in every house. Each house will also be equipped with a control tub.
New Batam City
Within the framework of transforming Batam into New Batam City, BP Batam is implementing the green project as an effort to protect the environment and sustainable development, which will, at the end of the day, boost investment and turn Batam into a highly attractive tourism destination.
In implementing the project, BP Batam is collaborating with the National Development Planning Ministry (Bappenas), Finance Ministry, Korea’s Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF) as a donor, Hansol as contractor and Sunjin as consultant in charge of safeguarding the project until completion as planned.
Currently, the addendum is entering the final phase and is expected to be completed in September 2023, after which the project will be continued and is targeted to be completed by the end of 2024.
When it comes to the scope of work, the IPAL project covers the construction of one unit of 230 Ipd, five pump stations, the installation of a 114-kilometer primary and secondary connecting pipeline, 11,000 pipelines connecting to houses. Currently, the project has reached 90.8 percent.
The 90.8 percent progress covers the construction of the IPAL building, in Bengkong Sadai, five pump stations, 104 km of primary and secondary pipeline and the first phase of the installation of 10,000 house connecting pipelines.
The remaining IPAL project implementation now underway is completing the installation of the primary and secondary pipeline network to the 11,000 targeted houses. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2024.
The construction of IPAL constitutes one of the infrastructure developments designed to transform Batam into a New City in alignment with a strong commitment that BP Batam Chairman Muhammad Rudi has made.
