Algeria has awarded SNC-Lavalin International a contract worth $62 million for an emergency water project in Skikda, 400 km east of the capital Algiers. The client is the Algerian Agence Nationale des Barrages.

The work will be carried out in two phases. The first phase involves designing and building a system to collect brackish water from 10 industrial wells; a 14,000 cu m/day reverse osmosis treatment plant; and a buffer tank and an uptake station.

The second phase includes building a 50,000 cu m/day floating pumping station; a 10 m-long transmission main leading to the foot of a dam; a 50,000 cu m uptake station to lift the water to a new 500 cu m storage tank and 44 km-long gravity duct and all related electrical equipment and automatic controls

The project has a spring deadline.