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Joint Measures to Improve the Quality of the Waters of the Rio Grande at Laredo, Texas/Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas (Minute No. 279)

Document type
Bilateral
Field of application
Regional/restricted
Date
Aug 28, 1989
Source
FAO, FAOLEX;  IUCN (ID: TRE-152337)
Place of adoption
Laredo,Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
Language
English
Subject
Water
Keyword
Waste disposal Sewerage Freshwater quality/freshwater pollution Surface water Effluent waste water/discharge Pollution control
Geographical area
Central America, North America
Abstract

This Minute concerns the approval of the "Joint Report of the Principal Engineers Concerning Measures the Should be Undertaken to Improve the Quality of the Waters of the Rio Grande at Laredo, Texas/Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas", signed on August 25, 1989, which proposes a sanitation project to be jointly financed by the Governments of the United States and Mexico. The works recommended by the Principal Engineers consist of six principal elements: (a) construction of a riverside collector; (b) construction of the Coyote I collector as an extension of the riverside collector; (c) expansion of the sewage collection system to collect and convey to the collectors sewage generated in areas not currently served and which are presently discharged into the Rio Grande; (d) rehabilitation of the sewage collection system at specific points to intercept and convey to the collectors those uncontrolled sewage flows that presently discharge into the Rio Grande through existing storm drains; (e) construction of a pumping plant that would convey the sewage from the riverside collector to a treatment plant; (f) construction of a secondary treatment plant.

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