Sfax Sud Wastewater Plant
Wastewater treatment, 49,500 m3/day (526,800 population equivalent), 21,500 kg BOD5/day in Tunisia.
Operational
The record
- Country
- Tunisia
- Location
- Sfax
- Coordinates
- 34.689, 10.733
- Technology
- Wastewater treatment
- Capacity
- 49,500 m3/day (526,800 population equivalent), 21,500 kg BOD5/day
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- ONAS
- Contractor
- —
- Operator
- Societe de Concession d'Assainissement du Sud Tunisien (SCAST)
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- 1983
- Commissioned
- 1983
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
- 1983
Plant commissioned south of Sfax
- 2006
Extension completed, taking capacity to 49,500 m3/day
- 2023-04
Plant brought within the ONAS southern sanitation concession
Sources
4 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Ministere de l'Environnement of Tunisia, ONAS open data, Liste de stations d'epuration (sample years 2021 to 2023). environnement.gov.tn.
- Gives Sfax Sud a commissioning range of 1983 to 2006, 49,500 m3/day, 21,500 kg BOD5/day and 526,800 population equivalent, the largest treatment works outside Greater Tunis.
- ONAS and SCAST, Concession de l'exploitation d'ouvrages d'assainissement collectif, Lot 2 Sud, March 2024. onas.nat.tn.
- 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.
Confirms the southern concession covers 14 treatment plants, 106 pumping stations and 1,898 km of sewers in Sfax, Gabes and Medenine. Coordinates from the OpenStreetMap wastewater plant named ONAS Sfax Sud at Thyna, south of Sfax.