The Board of Directors of the state mercantile company Aguas de las Cuencas de España (Acuaes), dependent on the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, has authorized the award of the contract for the execution of the works and start of the project for the construction of sewage collectors in the Orotava Valley (Tenerife). The cost of the action amounts to 9,721,012 euros.
Martín Casillas, SLU – Construcciones Daltre, SL has been selected from among the 14 companies that have submitted their bids. Jobs will have a 22-month lead time, according to the information provided yesterday by the Third Vice Presidency of the Government of Spain in a statement.
The actions included in the project affect La Orotava, Santa Úrsula, Puerto de la Cruz and Los Realejos, and will allow the La Orotava Valley to be composed of a single urban agglomeration, since they will have the same treatment system in common collective and dumping point. For this, infrastructures have been projected that will allow pumping and diverting the effluent generated in the various population centers to the Puerto de La Cruz WWTP.
Two new wastewater pumping stations (EBAR) are going to be built, in Cuesta de la Villa and in San Vicente, and another four are going to be remodeled in Martiánez, El Faro, Playa Jardín and San Telmo. In addition, 11 kilometers of collectors will be built in San Jerónimo, Los Martillos, Vista Paraíso, Cuesta de la Villa, Los Cuartos, La Montaña, Martiánez and Los Gómez-La Florida.
The investment will be co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund FEDER 2014-2020, within the Pluriregional Operational Program of Spain (POPE), as established in the collaboration agreement signed with the Cabildo de Tenerife and the Consejo Insular Aguas de Tenerife for the development and exploitation of works
At the same meeting, also held yesterday, the Board of Directors of Aguas de las Cuencas de España awarded, for 415,492 euros, the technical assistance services contract to the facultative management in the supervision and control of the execution, in the coordination of health and safety and in the environmental supervision and control of the works.
With the action, declared of general interest of the State in Law 10/2001, of July 5, of the National Hydrological Plan, it is intended to adapt and solve the problems of insufficiency of the current sanitation network, in compliance with Directive 91 / 271 / EEC.
The insular councilor for Sustainable Development, Javier Rodríguez, points out that these actions respond to a “global strategy” that is reflected in the agreement with the State for the development of five large sanitation and purification systems on the island, which will allow “to end spillage problems. The agreement, endowed with 170 million euros, includes action in the La Orotava Valley. “It will make it possible to collect all the water and direct it to the Valle regional treatment plant, located in Punta Brava, in whose rehabilitation and expansion we are working in a complementary manner.”
