The location of the Caesarea Industrial and Business Park necessitates measures to prevent pollution of underground water and protect environmental quality. The park is located over the beach aquifer, and near the Nahalay Menashe site, whish serves as the introduction point of surface runoff of underground water. In addition, located near the park are Mekorot pumping stations.

Actions adopted to prevent pollution include the planning and development of public and private infrastructure that is compatible with the park's unique environment, allowing only those factories that have passed a suitable environment screening, regulation of factories and monitoring of underground water.

Our commitment
The Caesarea Development Co. established the industrialand business park while committing to preventing environmental pollution in general, and of underground water in particular.
This commitment is anchored in the Caesarea Industrial and Business Park's urban construction plans.
The company is demonstrating initiative in environmental protection and is even requiring factories and companies operating in the park to comply with the water and environmental quality monitoring programs.

Nahalay Menashe Site

On the western border of the Caesarea Industrial Park, between the sand dunes and Mediterranean flora, are located four artificial ponds of the Nahalay Menashe factory.
The Nahalay Menashe Factory was established by Mekorot in 1969-70 to collect rainwater during the winter months, from four area streams: Nahal Hataninim, Nahal Ada, Nahal Barkan and Nahal Mishmoret.

Through a system of dams positioned on the watercourses, the floodwater is channeled towards one main channel - the Nahalay Menashe canal - which begins in the Amikam region.
 The Nahalay Menashe canal crosses the northern section of the park in a concrete canal standing on pillars, which looks like a 'modern aqueduct'. On the western side of the canal, water is spilled into the submerged lake designed to depress the initial silt and waste of floodwater.
Through a bypass canal, water streams form the lake southwards, crossing the road that connects the park to Pal-Yam Junction and reaching the three infiltration lakes.

Through these four lakes, floodwater infiltrates through natural penetration into the underground water - shore aquifer.

Through pumping stations scattered across the lake region, Mekorot pumps the underground water (average of 16 million cubic meters per year). The water is used by the surrounding towns to Haifa in the north, and some is delivered to the national water conduit.

Environmental Quality System Actions

The Caesarea Development Co.'s commitment to preventing pollution of underground water and the environment is one of the Caesarea Industrial and Business Park prominent advantages over other parks in Israel, and produces quality environmental life.

This commitment is reflected in the following actions:
1. A public sewage system and factory sewage system seal test
2. Employment of environmental quality consultants to review factories wishing to operate in the Park.
3. Carry out and maintain underwater monitoring pumps on Park grounds
4. Carry out samples and analysis on underground water through monitoring pumps.
5. Employment of an environmental system monitoring team from the Technion in Haifa.
6. Carry out samples and analysis of outgoing waste from factories and sewage drains in the Park
7. Regulation and control of hazardous waste removal form the factories in the Park.
8. Carrying out of samples and analysis of upper surface runoff in the park during the winter
9. Provision of professional services during regulation of factories and businesses operating from the park
10. Encouragement of factories to reduce raw material inventory and waste, repeat use of plastic, sending waste for recycling and repeated use of waste in manufacturing system
11. Treatment of environmental quality hazards on Park grounds.
12. Fertilization of landscaped areas with special fertilizers Wicker Slow release due to its slow decomposition that does not pollute the ground.
13. Assistance in issuing of business licenses to all companies in the Park.


The Monitoring Chain

The Caesarea Development Co. created a system to protect environmental quality in the Caesarea Industrial And Business Park. The system's operations are reflected in several related links, which, combined, create the monitoring chain. The links are responsible for a range of issues, including:
- Regulation of public infrastructure planning and development
- Ecological screening of factories and businesses, and their acceptance into the Park only after complying with the admission criteria and have proven that they complied with the required ecological criteria.
- Regulation of planning and construction of buildings in terms of sewage system normality in the structure and yard, aggregate
- For fuels, installation of waste treatment facilities and strict compliance with Ministry of the Environment and Ministry of Health criteria.
- Regulation of factories and businesses in waste, air emissions, noise, surface runoff, use of substances, manufacturing processes and storage.
- Regulation of underground water
- Regulation and control of quality of surface runoff when it is raining.
- Treatment, regulation and control of pollution hazards created in the Industrial Park area and that endanger underground water supply.

The efficacy of the monitoring chain depends on the force and strength of the links. The Caesarea Development Co., via an environmental quality system, constantly strives to improve and reinforce the links by channeling numerous resources to them.

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