FCC Construcción and Aqualia win the contract for the construction, operation and commissioning of the new water treatment plant in San Roque and Campo de Gibraltar (Cádiz)
FCC Construcción and Aqualia win the contract for the construction, operation and start-up of the new San Roque water treatment plant and the grouping of discharges from other municipalities in the Campo de Gibraltar region of Cadiz (Cádiz). The amount of the contract amounts to more than 50 million euros and has a term of 37 months, of which one month is for the drafting of the Integrated Works Management Plan, another 24 for the execution of the works and twelve more months. for the commissioning of the installation.
The purpose of the execution of the works is to treat wastewater from the Campo de Gibraltar with guarantees, acting on the current sanitation and purification systems.
The actions will consist of the grouping of discharges from the municipalities of Los Barrios and San Roque for their transfer to a new treatment plant, which will serve a population of 120,000 equivalent inhabitants.
The installation will treat the flow coming from San Roque (San Roque core, Guadarranque industrial estate, the station, Taraguilla, Miraflores and Carteya) and from Los Barrios (Los Barrios old town, expansion of Los Barrios, Palmones, Guadacorte and Cortijillos).
In addition, it will be dimensioned to collect in the future the flows from the San Roque nuclei of Puente Mayorga and Campamento, currently treated at the WWTP (wastewater treatment plant) of La Línea de la Concepción, which is working at the limit of its capacity.
The discharge grouping works will consist of the execution of 14 kilometers of drives, with a maximum diameter of 600 millimeters, three storm tanks, four new pumping stations and the adaptation of an existing one, all of them equipped with modern deodorization systems.
The action will be co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund FEDER, within the Plurirregional Operational Program of Spain (POPE), according to the agreement signed by ACUAES on May 23, 2022 with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development of the Junta de Andalucía and the Association of Municipalities of Campo de Gibraltar for the execution and exploitation of the works.