SEWAGE AND SEPTAGE TREATMENT PLANTS

Central Manila Sewerage System. Maynilad operates the Central Manila Sewerage System, which serves 70% of the city of Manila. The system covers part of Tondo, Sampaloc, Pandacan, Binondo, Sta. Cruz, Quiapo, San Miguel, Intramuros, Ermita, Malate, Paco, and Port Area.

The system consists of sewer lines, lift stations, pumping plant, bar screens, grit removal, aeration plants and other appurtenances. These collect, convey, treat and dispose wastewater discharges from Maynilad customers to a final disposal site which is 3.9 kilometers off the seashore of Manila Bay.

Dagat-Dagatan Sewage Treatment Plant. Another wastewater facility operated by Maynilad is the Dagat-Dagatan Sewage Treatment Plant (STP). The STP’s service area covers around 332.12 hectares of residential, institutional, commercial, and industrial establishments within Navotas, Malabon and Caloocan City.

The facility consists of a collection system, interceptor, screen chamber, wet well, pumping station, aeration ponds, facultative ponds and polishing ponds. Wastewater generated by customers is collected and treated before discharge to Maypajo Creek.

Dagat-Dagatan Septage Treatment Plant. Maynilad also operates a 450 CMD (cubic meters per day) Septage Treatment Plant inside the Dagat-dagatan STP compound. Septage collected by the company’s desludging trucks is brought to this plant for treatment.
The Dagat-dagatan sewage and septage treatment plant is the first facility of its kind in the Asia Pacific region to receive an Integrated Management System (IMS) certification for quality, environment, health and safety.