Ashmins, Communities Ministry ink pact for US$300,000 wastewater treatment plant

Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan looks on as Permanent Secretary Emil McGarrell and Ashmins’ CEO Lennox John sign the US$300,000 agreement for the construction of a wastewater treatment plant. (Communities Ministry photo)

The Ashmins Group of Companies yesterday signed an agreement with the Ministry of Commu-nities to construct a wastewater treatment plant with financing from a revolving fund set up to fund wastewater management projects in Guyana.

According to a Ministry of Communities statement, with the signing of the US$300,000 agreement, Ashmins is the first private sector company to access financing under the Guy-ana Wastewater Revolving Fund (GWRF), which was established in 2011.

The wastewater treatment plant will be constructed to treat 139,000 litres of wastewater daily, the ministry said, while noting that it will be used to divert and treat all wastewater generated at Ashmins’ Splashmins Fun Park and Resort and Madewini Villas. Treated wastewater will be reused for irrigation in vital operation across the sites, it added.

“This project will see 100 percent of wastewater generated by the company being treated to acceptable standards