The state-owned company Aguas de las Cuencas de España (Acuaes), dependent on the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, has started work to build the "new Arrecife treatment plant" with "the movement of land."
As reported this Friday by the Ministry in a statement, the new treatment plant in the capital of Lanzarote will be built together with "the land outfall, under construction since July", and which has an execution budget of "12.7 million euros."
Acuaes has started work on the earthmoving of the area that will be occupied by the new pre-treatment of the treatment plant, the construction of which is necessary before continuing with the rest of the elements of the installation.
The current treatment plant receives wastewater discharges from a large residential area that includes the towns of Arrecife, Playa Honda, el Cable and San Bartolomé, regenerating part of the treated water, as needed, for "agricultural reuse and garden irrigation."
The plant, the Ministry has highlighted, is "on the verge of its treatment capacity", with times of the year in which it receives "loads higher than those of design", even reaching "50% higher in peak conditions, producing discharge breaches."
"Improve the existing facilities, expand their treatment capacity and also adapt the discharge pipeline"
Based on this situation, the proposed action aims to "improve and adapt the existing facilities, expand their treatment capacity and also improve and adapt the discharge pipeline."
The treatment plant whose works are beginning will serve "about 90,000 equivalent people" and will have a treatment capacity of "12,000 cubic meters per day of average flow." It will also have a "tertiary treatment with a production capacity of regenerated water of up to 6,000 square meters per day" for reuse in "agricultural uses and garden irrigation."
"It is expected to conclude in the month of April 2024"
Regarding the outfall, the "works are progressing at a good pace", having completed those corresponding to "Pérez Galdós street, and currently work is being done on Lérida street." The works that have "started this week", the State Government has detailed, are "expected to conclude in the month of April 2024."
