THE Central Wastewater Treatment Company is now finalising the interconnection of major pipelines linking the Kingston Metropolitan Region to a centralised sewage treatment system at Soapberry in St Catherine, according to the Urban Development Corporation.

The UDC, in a press release, said special pipes will take the treated water to its final destination across both the Sandy Gully and Duhaney River to the Soapberry site where it will be treated in a pond system using sunlight, wind and filtration to ensure that the effluent meets all environmental standards.

The end product will be 18 million gallons per day of clean water which, in the long term will be available for irrigation purposes throughout the St Catherine plains once the Soapberry facility is complete.

Upon completion of the treatment facility at Soapberry, the current plants at Greenwich and Western will be taken out of service.

In the interim, the transfer station at Nanse Pen will be rehabilitated to handle the capacity demands.