Kyivvodocanal is posting an international tender for a five year, $1 billion, Japanese-funded project to upgrade Kyiv’s sole sewage plant to treat the waste of 5 million people

Kyivvodocanal is posting an international tender for a five year, $1 billion, Japanese-funded project to upgrade Kyiv’s sole sewage plant to treat the waste of 5 million people, about 12% of Ukraine’s total population. Located on the Left Bank, near the southeastern limits of the capital, the Bortnychny Sewage Treatment plant was built in three phases in the Soviet era. Work started in 1965 when greater Kyiv’s population was one third the size of today. Fed by 2,662 km of sewer pipes, Bortnychny’s three units handle up to 1 million cubic meters of water a day. The 272 hectares of sludge fields contain 10 million cubic meters of sediment.