Sofa sanitary landfill at Al Fukhari inaugurated

The Sofa engineered sanitary landfill at Al Fukhari, built by MACC for the Municipal Development and Lending Fund, was inaugurated on 12 June 2019 and will serve more than 800,000 people in the southern Gaza Strip.

The Sofa sanitary landfill at Al Fukhari, Khan Younis, was inaugurated on 12 June 2019. The ceremony was attended by the Minister of Local Government, the Minister of Entrepreneurship and Empowerment, the Governor of Khan Younis, the French Consul General in Jerusalem, the EU Representative, the World Bank representative, the Director General of the Municipal Development and Lending Fund, the head of the Joint Service Council and heads of local authorities in the southern governorates.

MACC built the landfill for MDLF as part of the Gaza Solid Waste Management Project, funded by the World Bank, AFD and the European Union. The works comprised two HDPE-lined cells over 100,000 m² with capacity for up to 2.2 million m³ of municipal solid waste, 1.4 million m³ of excavation, leachate and rain-water lagoons, rehabilitation of about 1 million m³ of old waste, a weighbridge, roads and administration and maintenance buildings.

The landfill will serve more than 800,000 people and protects the groundwater by replacing open dumping with engineered disposal. The site was formally taken over in August 2019.