Reshaping of the old Sofa dump site completed

MACC has completed the reshaping phase at the Sofa landfill, the rehabilitation of about 1,000,000 m³ of old waste at the existing dump site that forms part of the new sanitary landfill contract.

MACC has finished the reshaping phase at the Sofa landfill in Al Fukhari, Khan Younis. This phase rehabilitated about 1,000,000 m³ of old waste at the existing dump site, regrading it as part of the construction of the new sanitary landfill alongside.

The Sofa sanitary landfill is being built for the Municipal Development and Lending Fund under the Gaza Solid Waste Management Project, funded by the World Bank, AFD and the European Union. It comprises two lined cells of 100,000 m² with capacity for up to 2,200,000 m³ of municipal solid waste, leachate and rain-water lagoons, and site infrastructure including a weighbridge, roads and buildings.

The works continue towards taking over, which took place in August 2019.