Flemish sludge project rekindles hope for Benelux water PPPs

摘要

Aquafin, the wastewater utility serving Flanders, Belgium's Dutch-speaking region, has unveiled plans to contract out the design, construction, financing and long-term operation of a new processing plant which will handle two-thirds of the region's sewage sludge. The project will centralise the manage-ment of dewatered and dried sludge which has already been digested at individual WWTPs, and represents the first water-related PPP in the Benelux since the Har-naschpolder wastewater project reached financial close in 2003.