Israel to build pipeline to absorb sewage from Gaza

RAMALLAH - 1 July 2017: Israel will build a pipeline to absorb sewage from neighborhoods in the northern Gaza Strip after the sewage treatment facility there was shut down due to the electricity crisis, Ynet reported on Saturday.

The Sderot Municipality and the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council in the Gaza vicinity were asked this week to implement the decision of the Water Authority and to receive the wastewater from Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanun in the Gaza Strip through its sewage treatment facility.

Currently, the sewage from the Gaza Strip flows through Nahal Hanun, is stored in the sands of Moshav Netiv Ha'asara and pollutes the area and the groundwater. Once every few days, Israeli trucks come and draw the sewage.

The new sewage pipe is to be built in the Erez Crossing area. From there, the absorbed sewage will be transferred to the sewage storage facilities of Kibbutz Erez and then to Sha'ar Hanegev and Sderot's sewage treatment facilities.