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Sewage Ministry of the Environment, Lagos State


Sewage Management is one of the most visible problems confronting the state today, management of sewage in the state in times past essentially consisted of haphazard and uncoordinated responses to sewage challenges; it has been more of management of the crisis occasioned by inappropriate sewage management; sewage dumping rather than disposal, discharge of raw sewage at legal and illegal dump sites in the state, dilapidated dislodging trucks that discharge most of their contents on the road before getting to disposal points or even breakdown along the way, contamination of surface and groundwater, devalued and degraded environment. Cumulative effects have been adverse. 

 

The objective of sewage treatment is to produce a disposable effluent without causing harm or trouble to the communities and prevent pollution.
Sewage treatment, or domestic wastewater treatment, is the process of removing contaminants from wastewater and household sewage, both runoff (effluents) and domestic. It includes physical, chemical, and biological processes to remove physical, chemical and biological contaminants. Its objective is to produce a waste stream (or treated effluent) and a solid waste or sludge suitable for discharge or reuse back into the environment. This material is often inadvertently contaminated with many toxic organic and inorganic compounds.

 

TIMELINE

CHRONOLOGICAL ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE PAST

1983-1987

5 Sewage Treatment Plants (STP) was constructed in 1983 to 1987 in the following Low Cost Housing Estates namely;

 

  • Abesan Low-cost Housing Estate, Abesan
  • Oke-Afa Low-cost Housing Estate, Isolo
  • Amuwo-Odofin Low-cost Housing Estate, Amuwo-Odofin
  • Iponri Low-cost Housing Estate, Iponri  and
  • The Lagos State Government Secretariat, Alausa Secretariat     
1986

Abolition of pail latrine system Law

 

Introduction of the popular flush toilet called “water system” and          establishment of its accessory, the septic tank 

2000

Turn Around Maintenance of Alausa and Oke-Afa STP                     

2005

Rehabilitation Alausa STP

2007-2008

Rehabilitation of Abesan STP (UNDP Assisted programme)

2009
The Rehabilitation, Modification and Upgrading of

           Abesan STP
           Iponri STP and
           Oke-Afa STP

 EMAIL ADDRESS: sewage@moelagos.org

 

 TELEPHONE NO.:+234(0)8027975043, +234(0)8029064786, +234(0)8033578492, +234(0)8023430432
+234(0)8023241364, +234(0)8023849938

 

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