Sanitation renovation agreed
SANTA Pola town hall and the regional government have agreed the plan to completely reform the sanitation system for the municipality and Tabarca island.
A total investment of €7 million has been accepted to resolve the longstanding needs that the mainland town has been demanding, explained regional councillor for ecological transition, Mireia Mollà after a meeting with mayoress Loreto Serrano on Monday.
The work will include replacing the small wastewater treatment station on the region’s only inhabited island with a pumping station that will put an end to any spillages into the marine reserve, and installing an underwater pipeline to the Martínez Valero pumping station (EBAR) in Santa Pola.
The EBAR will be reformed before this summer, with construction of a new and extended underground facility, replacement of all the pipes and the generator, installation of six non-clog pumps, and increasing its pumping capacity from 143 to 249 cubic metres per hour.
Companies have already presented bids for the contract worth over €100,000 to design the construction project, which should be awarded within a few weeks.
The plan has to include remodelling the general wastewater collectors, renovating the pressurised pipelines to the Santa Pola treatment station, improving the rainwater overflow points, renovating the pumping station in the Sierra de Santa Pola, restoring the station at the lighthouse, and renewing the pressurised pipelines for the storm drains and collectors.
Also, a storm tank will be built to hold the first flush of surface run-off from rain, and the pipe through which this is expelled into the sea will be extended further away from the coast.