Public Work Authority announces completion of TSE Lines

The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) has announced the completion of building 3.2 km of treated sewage effluent (TSE) lines to provide for Al Gharrafa Park and surrounding green areas. Once the irrigation network was successfully implemented, Ashghal started to accelerate progress of development works for few roads in Al Gharrafa area, which includes the street parallel to Umm Al Zubar and the streets perpendicular to them that surrounds Al-Gharrafa Park.

Eng. Fahad Muhammad al-Otaibi, Ashghal’s Head of the Western Areas Section in the Roads Projects Department (RPD), said that, “the project comes as part of the Authority's efforts to improve existing public service facilities in the area, and provide new services and upgrade the streets, to cope with the economic and social growth requirements in Qatar.” He stressed on the project’s many benefits including the sustainable exploitation of treated effluent to irrigate and increase the green space, parks and plants along the streets in the area, and regulating the traffic and easing access to sports facilities and residential areas in the vicinity.

In connection to the TSE network works, Eng. Fahad al-Otaibi mentioned that “the scope of works involved the construction of TSE lines at a total length of 3.2 km, in order to serve Al Gharrafa Park and the green spaces in the area. The TSE lines extend from Al Maszhabiya Street and then into Jary Al-Samer Street to Umm Al Zubar Street until Al Gharrafa Park.”

As regards to the roads upgrading works, they are at the moment being carried out as the streets around Al-Gharrafa Park are being upgraded with a total length of 1.5 km. Works include street lighting and street safety features, road markings and road and traffic signs. In addition to the road works, the project scope consists of infrastructure utilities lines like irrigation networks, surface water, rainwater and groundwater drainage networks.

It is also worth noting that the Road Improvement Works in the Western Areas Project is part of Ashghal’s plan to make the roads and infrastructure networks services better in many areas in Al-Gharrafa and Al-Rayyan, and that all works are scheduled to be completed by the second quarter of 2021.

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