Matanza-Riachuelo Basin Sustainable Development Project

The objective of the Matanza-Riachuelo (M-R) Basin Sustainable Development Project for Argentina is to improve sewerage services in the M-R river basin and other parts of the province and city of Buenos Aires by expanding transport and treatment capacity. There are four components to the project grouped under two broad macro-components; the first macro component is the sanitation. Investments in sanitation infrastructure including the left bank collector, the Baja Costanera bypass collector, the Riachuelo preliminary treatment plant, inflow and effluent pumping stations at the Riachuelo preliminary treatment plant, the Riachuelo outfall, the Industrial collector, and the right bank collector. The second macro component includes: a) support for industrial pollution abatement; and b) environmental territorial management. The industrial pollution abatement component include technical assistance to improve environmental monitoring and enforcement of environmental targets for selected industrial activities, as well as financing of cleaner production investments to enhance and support environmental compliance among polluting small and medium size enterprises. The environmental territorial management component include technical assistance for environmental land use planning and financing for pilot urban and drainage works. Finally, the fourth component is the institutional strengthening and project management.