The Board of Directors of the state trading company Aguas de las Cuencas de España (Waters), of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, has authorized the award for 41,536,757 euros of the contract for the execution of the works and performance tests of the project of collectors and impulsions associated with the treatment plant of Montaña Reverón, in the term municipality of Arona.
Up to 17 companies submitted their bids and the joint venture Asch Infraestructuras y Servicios SA-Hidrotec Aguas SL was selected for a period of 24 months: 18 for the execution of the works and 6 months for the start-up phase.
The action, declared of general interest to the State, is part of the sanitation and purification plan that Acuaes is developing on the island based on the agreement signed with the Cabildo and the Insular Water Council, which foresees an investment of 170 million euros, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund ERDF 2014-2020.
Acuaes anticipates the financing of the works in its entirety, 50% being recovered from the Cabildo within a period of 25 years from the completion of the works and also assumes its contracting and execution as well as the direction and management until its completion.
The objective of the action is discharge disposal direct without adequate treatment that are currently produced through submarine outfalls located in San Miguel, Las Galletas or Palm-Mar. The regeneration of treated wastewater is also contemplated to allow its reuse for agricultural irrigation.
The joint action of Arona Este-San Miguel contemplates the execution of four treatment and pumping stations (ETBAR), six pumping stations (EBAR), as well as a 64-kilometre-long network of collectors and impulsions, which will allow the connection of the sanitation systems of Arona Este and San Miguel with the treatment plant of Montaña Reverón, whose works are expected to begin in the coming months.
In the awarded project, corresponding to the municipality of Arona, the ETBARs of Las Galletas and Cho will be executed, which will transfer the discharges produced in the area located between the motorway and the coast.
The new drives coming from Costa del Silencio, Guaza and the future Palm-Mar will connect to them, while the area located to the north of the highway will flow directly into the new WWTP.
There will be 40 kilometers of pipelines, to which are added the 13 kilometers of the land outfall of the Montaña Reverón Wastewater Station.
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The island councilor for Sustainable Development and the Fight against Climate Change, Javier Rodríguez, indicated that for the Cabildo this action is a priority in the island’s sanitation and purification plan “to put an end to the wastewater problem that we have suffered for decades” .
For Rodríguez “the political commitment of the Cabildo to end the discharge of wastewater and achieve a more sustainable Island is becoming a reality.”
For his part, the mayor of Arona, José Julián Mena, welcomed the announcement by the State Government, since the sanitation system will prevent the use of outfalls in the sea in areas such as San Miguel, Las Galletas or Palm Mar, in addition to contemplating the reuse of water for agricultural use, once treated, something similar to what is already done in the municipality of Cabo Blanco, where the water is treated for use in garden irrigation.
