Panama City Wastewater Treatment Plant

摘要

Since Panama City was founded in the 1500s by Spanish conquistadors, sewage has been dumped in the local rivers and the Bay of Panama. To address this health and environmental hazard, the Panamanian government broke ground on the Panama City Wastewater Treatment Plant project in 2009. The 2.2-cu-meter-per-day wastewater treatment plant is the largest biological nutrient removal (BNR) plant of its kind in Central America. Completed in May 2013, the $241-million project was built to receive and treat sewage from Panama City's metropolitan area, where the population exceeds one million people.