Dubai International City Smells Awful!!!!!

[Digitalchaos]

alright well, i dont know anything for sure, my assumption is from the fact that they will move the plant because keeping it here will eventually kill this place off. so I think they will move it but when is the question?? its not gonna be anytime soon thats for sure. as for springs i have been there sooo many times. and as far as I could tell it is far from Emirates road. Its much closer to Shk. zayed road rather than emirates road. I used to live on Shk. zayed road and went there several times and i dnt think its that close to Emirates road. but neway as u said this aint the discussion, and about the smell in the rest of dubai, I havent experienced that myself but its defenitly possible, since they dont actually have a sweage network and you might have noticed that those Orange trucks never stop going and coming from the Sweage plant, and thats bcoz they depend on those trucks to carry the **** from all over dubai. and thats not as effecient obviously. which could be the reason u smell **** in different parts of dubai (More **** is being dumped into the sewers than the **** being pulled up!).

For me now i dnt care anymore.......coz I FINALLY moved out of International City!! I went to Bur-Dubai. its better by all means down here (well except the money part )God help the rest of u that are still stuck in there!!.

[Ginger]

Good luck, Digitalchaos! I'll do the same when my renewal rent is due...

[cacrus]

Its been just two months when finally i survived from delaying dates of handover and suffered for almost a year long delay due to unaccountable real estate Gods.

And than I realized how stinking this place turns into at night time. The whole international city stinks at night time when sewerage plant opens its mouth and takes a burp .

Rising rents and low supply of accommodations has really forced people to live by the $hit hole ?

I am just shocked at Nakheel's amazing achievement by building and selling out huge residential area right beside sewerage plant and people are actually living there . Nobody is doing anything . The whole international city is filled with stench , no cluster is saved , if u are not smelling bad smell at night time in your cluster , say thanks to wind.

I would request everyone to send email to 7 days (your7days_at_7days*ae) , khaleejtimes (www*khaleejtimes*com/contactus.asp) , gulfnews (gulfnews*com/aboutus/contact/letter_to_editor.html ) and emiratestoday (letters_at_emiratestodayonline*com ) to mention the issue . International city has started populating , people are moving in , this is going to become a huge issue very soon .

Just pass by at night time after 10 in international city , you will understand what people are going thru .

[QAMAR]

this is so sad and i just bought a studio in morrocco cluster.
guess im gonna have to ask tenant to go mina bazar and buy lots of fake perfumes for the house.

[georgihh]

They will never shut the plant and why should they?
The plant is going to pump more and more until we get very upset and Dubai is over.
That’s why IC is a “cheap” area and if you don’t like it you have to pay double.
Do you know any other place in the world where you pay a 1000$ per month to stay in a studio next to a sewage plant?
What is going to happen?
As the inflation is building up and more people are considering leaving the Emirates for ever will be a lot of empty buildings with less population and of course less smell(less people).
Next year will be the beginning to the end and …………. less smell

[georgihh]

I have red in a newspaper that their extending the capacity of the Al Awir **** plant and the first extension will be early next year.

There is not a such a thing as relocating the plant, And jebel ali plant is intend to help the existing plants

[georgihh]

Khaleej Times Online >> News >> THE U.A.E
Dubai to get new Dh1.5b sewage treatment plant
By a staff reporter

2 April 2007

DUBAI — Dubai Municipality will build a new sewage treatment plant in Jebel Ali at a cost of Dh1.5 billion in cooperation with two private companies, Al Ahmadiah-Aktor LLC and Greek contractor Aktor SA.
According to officials, the decision follows the directives of His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to provide the city with modern infrastructure and ensure the implementation of the Dubai Strategic Plan.
The private companies will help the municipality to construct the plant, specialising in waste water treatment, with a total capacity of 300,000 cubic metres per day.
The contract for the plant was signed during a ceremony attended by Shaikh Hashr bin Maktoum Al Maktoum, Director of the Dubai Information Department, Hussain Nasser Lootah, Acting Director General of the Dubai Municipality, and Dimitris Kallitsantsis, Managing Director, Aktor.
Lootah said the contract constitutes the first phase of the new Jebel Ali Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) Project which has a projected capacity of 1.1 million cubic metres per day. This capacity will be built up over a number of phases which will be programmed to suit the growth in wastewater flows. The new plant is to be built on a 675 hectare desert site located in the south-east of the Jebel Ali Free Zone.
“This contract follows a comprehensive, two-year review of wastewater treatment technology and process design undertaken by the global environmental consultant MWH on behalf of the Drainage & Irrigation Department,” said Lootah.
He noted that the main objective of the project is to provide Dubai with the best sustainable, environmental and economical wastewater and sludge treatment solution to supplement the existing treatment plant at Al Awir in meeting present and future treatment requirements.

[Ginger]

yes, it will be there, the new waste plant, I told you it is long time on the master plant of Jebel Ali,

but it has nothing to do with the existing one, the one right next to us, because this one will keep on functioning regardless of the Jebel Ali plant.

There is a lot of construction going on, especially in the side of Jebel Ali, so the waste plant is necesary thing there.

Our beloved sewagefactory will NOT get less SH..T because of that )

[Aegean]

Originally Posted by laguna33p

i guess these developers choose to build next to sewage plants etc because the land cost a penny and nobody else will buy

Suspect your correct - wonder if they gave the agents big commissions to shift - who I would quess told anybody who was interested that there were plans to close the plant.

Situation normal.

[Ginger]

Originally Posted by farooki

I am living in International City Spain Cluster. No smell at all I think its a great place to live.

May I know when you moved in please?
I have a friend just across the road in Spanish cluster, she says it doesn't smell at all, and this is across the road! Well, what I say is to wait a little. There was rearly any smell for the last three months, and I had a great time at my Persian cluster too...
Lately, smell actually happened couple of times..
I just suggest you wait till when it's hotter, then it will become unbearable and everywhere - please read earlier posts...

They gave us a break during winter... it doesn't mean the question is finished...