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This action enables a new pretreatment system and the construction of a storm tank

The Minister of Agriculture and Water, Antonio Cerdá, and the mayor of Abanilla, Fernando Molina, attended today the beginning of the expansion works of the treatment plant of the municipality, which will increase its capacity to treat water, increasing from 1,250 cubic meters up to 2.000 cubic meters.

The improvement works will serve the equivalent of about 16,500 inhabitants of the city center, in the hamlet of Mahoya and Industrial Estate 'The Semolilla' population.

The plant will be ready to treat water washing of streets, in times of heavy rain, pour the bed of the river Chícamo declared LIC.

This implies to treat contamination equivalent to 4,000 more and reuse treated water for irrigation.

This action will allow to have a new pretreatment system that "will replace the existing one which is obsolete and inadequate for current demands," explained Cerdá, and the construction of a storm tank that can hold up to a volume of 1,400 m Cu, in times of rain, "treating and preventing such discharges his relief at Chícamo River."

Storm tank is formed by three blocks 5.7 meters wide.

The owner of Agriculture and Water said that the expansion of the treatment plant "meets the actual needs and future growth of the municipality."

This infrastructure, financed with funds from the EU cohesion by 80 percent, with an investment of 1.1 million euros.

Cerda said that in addition to recover water for treatment and reuse in local irrigated with this action "an important role in environmental protection Chícamo River" is true.

He recalled that the Region of Murcia "eliminates 97 percent of the pollutant load, well above the 75 percent required by the European Union", which said, "we are getting water with a prepotable level of quality and wholesomeness" .

This action is part of the General Plan of cleansing and purifying that has given the municipalities in the region of large treatment plants and aims in this new phase is to get one hundred percent of small municipalities.

Source: CARM