Ghadir Wastewater Treatment Plant
Wastewater treatment + sewer networks, 50,000 m3/day (existing plant) in Lebanon.
In tender
The record
- Country
- Lebanon
- Location
- Beirut
- Coordinates
- 33.790, 35.480
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment + sewer networks
- Capacity
- 50,000 m3/day (existing plant)
- Capital cost
- EUR 146 m approximate total project cost, including sewer networks (European Investment Bank), converted at EUR 0.85 per US$ (World Bank official exchange rate, euro area, 2018 average, the year the EIB's EUR 68.5 m finance contract was signed)
- Stage
- In tender
- Owner or client
- Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR), executing agency
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- —
- Finance
- Islamic Development Bank (Istisna'a financing; US$87.5 million approved by its board in June 2014) and European Investment Bank (EUR 68.5 million signed in 2018) for the expansion and upgrade
- Award or start year
- 1998
- Commissioned
- 1998 (existing plant)
Record last checked 2026-10-16.
History
- 1998
Existing Al-Ghadir plant built at a cost of about EUR 7.5 million
- 2014-06
Islamic Development Bank board approves US$87.5 million for the Al Ghadir drainage basin
- 2016
Islamic Development Bank loan approved, as Daraj reports
- 2018-02
EIB signs EUR 68.5 million of finance on 28 February for a project with a total cost of about EUR 146 million
- 2018
Lebanese parliament ratifies the loan agreements
- 2021-07
Daraj reports no construction started and the plant not functioning
- 2025-05
CDR invites prequalification applications for the IsDB-financed design, construction and operation of the Phase I expansion and upgrade (applications due 24 June 2025)
Sources
5 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Daraj, No hope yet for Lebanon's most polluted river, 13 July 2021. daraj.media.
- Islamic Development Bank, Design, Construction and Operation of the Expansion and Upgrade of Al-Ghadir Wastewater Treatment Plant Project, Phase I (specific procurement notice, 8 May 2025, financing LBN1017-48/03967). isdb.org.
- European Investment Bank, project 20100281. eib.org.
- Total cost (approximate amount) EUR 146 million; EIB financing of EUR 68,500,000 signed on 28 February 2018. Islamic Development Bank, IDB approves more than US$447 million for financing new development projects, 23 June 2014. isdb.org.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
US$87.5 million for Improvement of Wastewater Management and Sanitary Services in Al Ghadir Drainage Basin, Lebanon, approved at the 298th meeting of the Board of Executive Directors. Daraj (2021) instead gives a EUR 69.7 million IsDB loan approved in 2016; the two are not reconciled.