SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 13 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife, through the Insular Water Council, has awarded the contract for the drafting of the project for a new regional wastewater treatment station in the Valle de La Orotava, which will process up to 10,000 cubic meters of water per day, for a budget of 108,251 euros and with a completion period of six months.
This treatment plant will complete phase 1 of the complex to be installed in the valley and which will be complemented by other future infrastructure that will treat another 10,000 cubic meters per day.
The construction of this infrastructure is included in the Hydrological Plan of Tenerife, the Cabildo points out in a note.
The sanitation model of the Valle de La Orotava is made up of a set of infrastructures that make up the homonymous Territorial Sanitation System, which allows wastewater from the municipalities of Puerto de la Cruz, Los Realejos and La Orotava to be collected and transported to the Orotava Valley Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP), located in Puerto de la Cruz, where secondary water treatment is carried out.
“Currently this treatment plant, after the years that have elapsed since its creation, and the real high biological load of the collected flows, is in the final stretch of its useful life, treating with great difficulties a flow that oscillates between 6,500 and 7,000 cubic meters a day,” said Javier Rodríguez, the island’s councilor for Sustainable Development and the Fight Against Climate Change.
Consequently, said facility “currently lacks the necessary capacity and, therefore, it is to be expected that the situation will worsen once the works to expand the valley’s collection network have been completed, which is expected to be carried out by the State Mercantile Society for Water de las Cuencas de España develops, for which reason it is urgent to start up a new treatment plant that attends to the more than 100,000 inhabitants of the region,” said the minister.
This contract will consist of the drafting of the construction project for a new wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) in the Valle de La Orotava Hydraulic Complex, through a secondary treatment of 10,000 cubic meters per day of capacity with membrane bioreactor technology (MBR). ), corresponding to the first phase, keeping the current WWTP operational at all times.
Given the scarcity of available space inside the Valle de La Orotava Hydraulic Complex, motivated by the presence inside the plot of the current building, the implementation of the new facilities in the free space at present must be analyzed in detail. , so that they do not interfere with the current process, as well as guarantee the compatibility of the design carried out with future expansions of the plant.
Thus, it will be necessary to study the need to carry out emptying and support tasks in the perimeter of the complex with a view to enabling the necessary space for the implementation of the required infrastructures.
