📩 19/09/2023 13:33
Konya Metropolitan Municipality is building a Wastewater Recovery Facility right next to the Karapınar Wastewater Treatment Plant for the ecological restoration of Lake Meke, the jewel of the world. Konya Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Uğur İbrahim Altay stated that the facility, whose first phase works have reached a 75 percent completion rate, will not only feed Meke Lake; He also stated that it will play an important role in the irrigation of green areas around the lake. Mayor Altay said, “With our recovery facility, which is under construction with the support of our Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, 8 thousand cubic meters of purified water will be transferred daily by drawing an 7 and a half kilometer transmission line to Lake Meke. "Hopefully, we will give life to Meke Lake again," he said.
Konya Metropolitan Municipality KOSKİ General Directorate is building a Wastewater Recovery Facility in order to restore the world's bead of evil, Meke Lake, to its former glory.
Konya Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Uğur İbrahim Altay said that the Wastewater Recovery Facility, which was built right next to the Karapınar Wastewater Treatment Plant within the scope of the "Feeding Meke Lake with Recycled Water for the Purpose of Ecological Restoration Project", will help maintain the water level in Meke Lake and the lake. He stated that it will play an important role in the irrigation of the green areas around it.
Reminding that the Karapınar Advanced Biological Wastewater Treatment Facility was completed and put into operation in February 2021, Mayor Altay said, “The wastewater originating from our Karapınar district center is treated in this treatment facility. This treated wastewater can also be used for environmental purposes with the recycling facility that we are currently building. In this way, we will create a recycled water source. We are implementing the recycling and water transmission facility in stages. In the first stage, it was planned to complete the construction parts of the units to be built within the Karapınar Wastewater Treatment Plant, and in the second stage, the electromechanical structures and transmission line construction of the facility was planned. We have reached 25 percent of the construction of our facility after the contract we made with the contractor company for our first phase works, which cost approximately 75 million lira. Hopefully, we will give life to Meke Lake again. With our recovery facility, which is under construction with the support of our Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, 8 thousand cubic meters of purified water will be transferred daily by drawing an 7 and a half kilometer transmission line to Lake Meke. "I already wish it to be beneficial and auspicious for our city and district," he said.
The wastewater treated by Konya Metropolitan Municipality at the Karapınar Wastewater Treatment Plant will be delivered to Meke Lake after being repeatedly purified and disinfected in pressurized sand filtration, activated carbon filtration, ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis units.