Portal de Murcia

www.portaldemurcia.com

• Home
• Business
• Hotels
• Restaurants
• News
• Advertisement

The Governing Board has given the green light to the project, which has been drafted by the Directorate General for Water.

Its execution will allow connecting this urban center and its urbanizations to the sanitation network of the municipality, whose length exceeds 1,500 kilometers.

The Government Board today approved the project for the construction of a sewage treatment plant in Cañadas de San Pedro, which will serve 366 homes in the town, which until now had septic tanks.

The project, which has received a green light at the suggestion of the Department of Development, led by Roque Ortiz, has been drafted by the Directorate General for Water, while the City Council will be responsible for making available to the Autonomous Community the land needed to undertake the work and, once the infrastructure is completed, will be managed and maintained by the Local Administration, which will incorporate it into the general network of sanitation and purification of the municipality.

The Town Planning Department will now begin the procedure to obtain the required land, so that construction begins next year.

Simultaneously with these works, the City Council and Aguas de Murcia will run the collector - with a total length of 3,242 ml - and the equipment of three pumping stations to drive the wastewater from the built-up areas of the hamlet to the WWTP.

At present, the urban center of Cañadas de San Pedro does not have a sewerage network, an infrastructure that is installed in the Monte Blanco and Brugarolas urbanizations, but there is no sewage service.

With the development of this project, the wastewater that is evacuated by these sanitation pipes will reach the new treatment plant, allowing two objectives to be fulfilled which are part of the Integrated Sustainable Urban Development Strategy of Murcia:

Protection of natural systems: protecting and improving the water cycle in urban environments

Improvement of the quality of life of citizens through the provision of sanitation

Currently the municipality has an extensive sewerage network of 1,560 km in length to serve the neighborhoods and districts.

This infrastructure reaches 95% of homes.

Unconnected water discharges its sewage to septic tanks or to the natural environment, which, and, in most cases, are located in areas that present geographical or topographic difficulties.

Cañadas de San Pedro will no longer be in this situation in the near future, once the process of construction of the new treatment plant has finished, whose estimated budget amounts to 3.4 million euros.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia