Evaluation of Post-Construction Communal Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs) in Sleman District, Special Region of Yogyakarta

Abstract

The Special Region of Yogyakarta Government took one step to improve access to proper sanitation for the community through the Communal WWTP. There are four communal WWTP procurement programs in Sleman District: Community-based Sanitation, Urban Sanitation Rural Infrastructure (USRI), Special Allocation Fund and Community-based Environmental Sanitation. After the Communal WWTP was built and operated, various problems indicate the Communal WWTP has not run optimally after construction. Therefore, this study evaluated thirteen Communal WWTPs in Sleman District after construction was carried out. The aspects reviewed in this study were the administrator institutional and the management’s performance using the scoring method. The evaluation results based on the administrator institutional aspect and the management’s performance showed that Ambarketawang WWTP had less performance with a total score of 16. At the same time, other WWTPs got the optimal category with a total score more than equal to 25. These results indicate that the Community-Based Environmental Sanitation procurement program was considered less than optimal because the Ambarketawang WWTP did not keep Communal WWTP documentation and had no maintenance Standard Operational Procedure (SOP). The administrators did not also understand the main tasks and functions as administrators.