In mid-June, at the Southern Industrial Park of Lao Cai province, the construction atmosphere was urgent. Dozens of workers and many machines and vehicles continuously worked on internal roads to install wastewater collection pipelines.
The project has a treatment flow of 1,200m3/day and night, started in December 2025, and is expected to be completed in January 2027.
Currently, the contractor has constructed about 6,000m of pipeline on a total volume of about 12,000m.
This is one of three centralized wastewater treatment projects being simultaneously implemented by Lao Cai province in the Southern industrial parks, Minh Quan and Au Lau with a total investment of about 185 billion VND.
At Minh Quan Industrial Park, a centralized wastewater treatment system is invested with a capacity of 500m3/day and night along with more than 6.5km of collection pipelines.
The project started construction in April 2026, expected to be completed in September 2027, contributing to creating an environmental infrastructure fund to attract more investors.
Similarly, at Au Lau Industrial Park, a wastewater treatment plant with a capacity of 500m3/day and night and a collection network of more than 5.3km are being prepared for synchronous deployment.
The project started in January 2026, expected to be completed in January 2028, and is expected to contribute to controlling waste sources and limiting the risk of environmental pollution in areas with rapid industrial development.
On June 12, in an exchange with a reporter from Lao Dong Newspaper, Mr. Trinh Huynh Yen - Deputy Head of the Management Board of Industrial Parks of Lao Cai province said that currently many industrial parks in the area are in the stage of expanding production, attracting more new investment projects, leading to great pressure on environmental infrastructure, especially wastewater collection and treatment systems.
In that context, the synchronous deployment of three centralized wastewater treatment systems in the Southern Industrial Park, Minh Quan and Au Lau is considered a timely and fundamental step to fundamentally solve the environmental problem in industrial development.
According to Mr. Yen, when put into operation, the projects will not only help strictly control all waste sources generated in the industrial park but also improve environmental management capacity towards modernity, transparency and sustainability.
This is essential infrastructure, of long-term significance for the development of industrial parks. Investing in synchronous wastewater treatment systems will help minimize environmental pollution risks, while creating an important competitive advantage in attracting investors with high environmental standards," emphasized the Deputy Head of the Management Board of Industrial Parks of Lao Cai province.
