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Illegal sewage dumping raising waste pollution in Dubai
Overflowing sewage in the Jumeirah area storm drain network due to illegal sewage dumping has led to more human waste pollution around the Jumeirah coastline and the Dubai Offshore Sailing Club where the storm pipe is located.
- By Emmanuelle Landais, Staff Reporter
- Published: 00:02 October 5, 2008
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Dubai: Overflowing sewage in the Jumeirah area storm drain network due to illegal sewage dumping has led to more human waste pollution around the Jumeirah coastline and the Dubai Offshore Sailing Club where the storm pipe is located.
Dubai Municipality drainage and irrigation department maintain that aggressive efforts are being made to catch dumping culprits.
Abdul Majeed Safaee, drainage network department director, said more inspectors were being sent out between midnight and the early morning as opposed to the afternoon, when they were dispatched previously.
He said storm drains could not be welded shut as it is necessary for them to be open during the impending rainy season. "We cannot close storm water drains because of the rains. There are thousands of them and it would be impossible to close them all permanently," Safaee told Gulf News.
He said the sewage tankers collect sewage mainly from industrial areas and that the Jumeirah area is connected to the Al Aweer Sewage Treatment Plant via a pipeline network.
Solution
Until the new sewage treatment plant opens next September in Jebel Ali, the only solution is to catch the tankers with the help of the police, Safaee said.
Currently the pipeline network pumps 360,000 cubic metres of sewage per day. Safaee said the network would be able to hold despite the increasing population in Dubai until next September.
The storm drains, which usually flush out rainwater out to sea, have to be flushed out despite what is in them or risk a sewage overflow. "If the line is too full, we have to open them," he said.
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