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| Acciona Agua awarded contracts in Madrid, Sevilla and Zaragoza  Spain's Acciona said the joint venture comprising Acciona Agua, Acciona Infrastructure and Riegosur has been chosen as finalist for the project to design and build an extension to the Guadalquivir sewage treatment in the municipality of Palomares del Río (Sevilla). The Aragon Regional Government has awarded Acciona Agua, in partnership with Arascon, the contract to undertake sanitation and sewage treatment projects in a number of towns in Zaragoza and to operate and maintain them for 20 years. And Canal de Isabel II, Madrid's water utility, has awarded Acciona Agua a 2-year contract for indirect management of the sewage treatment plants in the middle reaches of the Guadarrama river basin (batch V) in Madrid.Egmasa, an environmental management company which belongs to the Andalusia Regional Government's Department of the Environment, has chosen the joint venture comprising Acciona Agua, Acciona Infraestructuras and Riegosur to design the Guadalquivir sewage plant extension, with the possibility of executing the project. The first phase of the Guadalquivir sewage plant, in the municipality of Palomares del Río (Sevilla), became operational in 1988 and currently treats sewage from the Aljarafe district and environs. Because of population growth in the towns in the area and the imminent connection of more towns to the sewage treatment system, the plant's capacity needs to be doubled. The basic goal of the project, worth 19.77 million euro, is to expand the current sewage plant so as to cover the current and future needs of the towns in the Aljarafe district and to improve the plant's water treatment performance. The Aragon Regional Government has decided to treat 100% of the region's sewage and, to this end, has designed the Aragon Special Sanitation Plan, in which the region is subdivided into zones. Acciona Agua, with Aragonese construction company Arascon (30% stake in the consortium), has been chosen as finalist to build the sanitation and sewage treatment infrastructure for the towns in zone 7B (La Almunia de Doña Godina, Lumpiaque, Morata de Jalón, Herrera de los Navarros, Alfamén, Longares and Villanueva de Huerva) and maintain them for 20 years under a concession contract. The Acciona Agua-Arascon consortium will invest 27.46 million euro in sanitation infrastructure. Acciona Agua has also been awarded a contract to operate and maintain 20 sewage plants for Madrid's water utility, Canal de Isabel II, in the middle reaches of the Guadarrama river basin (batch V), for 2 years; the project represents an investment of 4.6 million euro. All the plants are located in the southwest of the Madrid region, in 19 towns (including Navalacarnero, Villaviciosa de Odón, Valdemorillo, Cenicientos, Cadalso de los Vidrios and Sevilla la Nueva) with a total population of 358,950. The contract may be extended by a further two years, renewable annually. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Construction News :: home page |