The expansion of the Arrecife Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) has reached 77% completion and its finalization is scheduled for January 2027. This was highlighted this Thursday during the meeting of the Monitoring Commission of the agreement signed between the state-owned company ACUAES and the Water Consortium of Lanzarote for the expansion and modernization of the Island's sanitation and treatment systems.
The meeting, held at the headquarters of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, in Arrecife, served to analyze the progress of actions with an initial estimated investment of 37.5 million euros, aimed at adapting the infrastructures to European regulations on urban wastewater treatment and promoting the reuse of water for agricultural irrigation and urban uses.
The planned actions focus on the expansion of the Arrecife treatment plant and outfall, as well as the improvement and expansion of the Tías WWTP along with the pumping stations and the Puerto Calero wastewater pumping station (EBAR).
The meeting was attended by the president of ACUAES, María Rosa Cobo; the Minister of Waste, Water, and Wind Energy of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, Domingo Cejas; and the manager of the Water Consortium of Lanzarote, Fernando Fernández, along with technical and financial managers from both entities.
According to the information provided during the meeting, the expansion of the Arrecife WWTP will allow a 50% increase in the facility's treatment capacity, reaching a daily flow rate of 12,000 cubic meters and serving an equivalent population of 126,000 inhabitants.
Among the works already completed are the commissioning of the new pre-treatment building, the construction of the equalization tank, the clarifiers, and the sludge digester, as well as the new biological reactor tanks and various connection and integration infrastructures for the system.
The construction of the mixed sludge building has also been completed, and work has been carried out on the dewatering building, in addition to the initiation of blower replacement and the construction of the new General Low Voltage Center.
Over the next few months, work will focus on the implementation of the deodorization system, the completion of pending civil works, and the adaptation of existing treatment lines to the new plant configuration.
The work in Arrecife also includes the expansion of the outfall. So far, 1,300 of the initially planned 2,640 meters have been installed. However, the appearance of problems in the route has forced the partial termination of the contract to execute the remaining 1,340 meters. To complete this section, a new project will be drafted, the tender for which is planned for this month.
On the other hand, the expansion and improvement works of the EDAR of Tías, along with the pumping stations and the EBAR of Puerto Calero, were awarded by the Board of Directors of ACUAES on May 28. The start of the works is planned for September.
The actions are financed by the FEDER 2021-2027 program, which will contribute 50% of the investment. The rest will be financed through ACUAES's own resources and financing obtained in financial markets, which will be recovered later through the tariffs of the Lanzarote Water Consortium.
The update of the agreements will also allow for the execution of a new land section of the outfall of 3,214 meters, new pipelines from Yaiza and Uga to the future EDAR, the EBARES of Yaiza, Uga and Barranco del Agua, as well as the construction of a reclaimed water tank.
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