Bandar Lampung City Water Supply PPP Project was developed to improve water service to the community of Bandar Lampung City. Most of the households in the area use groundwater to cover their daily needs.
With this project, the management of bulk water supply water in the city of Bandar Lampung will be conducted by PDAM Way Rilau and Project Company. All the distribution network will be operated by PDAM Way Rilau. The level of services is expected to be increased from 20% in 2015 to 46% in 2024 with sustainable access to safe drinking water. The capacity of the system is 750 l / sec and the system will serve 60,000 household connections
The service area will cover 8 districts in Bandar Lampung namely Rajabasa, Labuan Ratu, Way Halim, Kedaton, Tanjung Senang, Sukarame, Sukabumi and Kedamaian District.
Raw water from the intake in Way Sekampung River will be pumped into the Water Treatment Plant (WTP) located in Rulung Helok village, approximately 500 m from the intake site. Furthermore, raw water will be distributed through the transmission pipeline for approximately 21 km to the reservoir in Rajabasa District in Bandar Lampung as the offtake point from Project Company to GCA. The GCA will purchase bulk water using Take or Pay Mechanism and distribute the water to the customers in the service area using pumping and gravitation distribution systems.
The total length of transmission pipes is ± 21 km using steel pipes1.000 mm diameter. The total length of distribution pipes is ± 425 km with varying diameters of 50-1.000 mm using steel and HDPE pipes.