Want sewerage service? Then pay, says Costa Rica's AyA
Some 125,000 families in the metropolitan region of Costa Rica's capital San José will have to pay for their own connections to the sewerage system, local paper La Nación reported.
The system is being built by water authority AyA to serve 11 neighborhoods in San José. Each family will have to pay between 6,000 and 850,000 colones (US$12-1,585) for the connection. And all houses in the neighborhoods to be served by the system will have to pay an additional 33% above water consumption to pay for the sewerage service, regardless of whether they are connected to the system.
The wastewater is to be piped to the Los Tajos treatment plant in La Uruca, where up to 40% of the organic waste is to be removed before being discharged. Untreated wastewater from another 140,000 households is still discharged into San José's rivers, according to the newspaper.
The works form part of an overall environmental improvement plan which this year looks to cover all of northern San José. The southern half is expected to be covered in 2016.
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