The municipal company will build a pumping station on Austria Street and the Consortium will control the discharges and the salinity of the water
The president of Aguas de Cádiz and second deputy mayor in the City Council of Cádiz, Ana Fernández, and the special delegate of the State in the Free Trade Zone of Cádiz, Fran González, held a meeting this morning in which the planning of the hydraulic needs for supply and sanitation of both the lands in the exterior and interior premises of the Consortium and the former Altadis lands acquired by the Free Zone were discussed. To this end, both entities have signed an agreement by which the water company authorizes the Consortium to connect the sewage network of its interior area to the city's municipal network. This was one of the issues discussed at the meeting held at the Aguas de Cádiz headquarters and in which the manager of the municipal company, Jesús Oliden, and the technical director of the Consortium, Felipe Martínez, also participated.
Guaranteeing the proper functioning of the hydraulic infrastructure and the adequacy of the networks in both supply and sanitation (fecal and stormwater networks) as well as the joint actions to be carried out to guarantee the quality of the service in optimal environmental conditions have been the focus of the meeting. Currently, there is a unitary sewage network in the outer area (fecal and rainwater are not separated) of insufficient capacity, without comprehensive coverage or an efficient layout, which is why the construction of a network has been planned in phases coordinated with the urban programming. In a special way, the hydraulic needs of the development of the land previously occupied by Altadis have been addressed to define the dimensions of the collectors that will be necessary for the supply network and for the evacuation of the sanitation networks.
Recently, the Cádiz Free Trade Zone has incorporated a new water quality monitoring system into its network in the interior area so that its salinity, which is detrimental to the subsequent purification process, is continuously controlled. It is a computer application that measures the indicated parameters in real time and sends them to the Aguas de Cádiz system to be able to act if the indicators are altered. In order to reach this agreement, the Gaditana institution has invested more than 60,000 euros in improving the tax precinct's own networks.
These improvement actions include carrying out an environmental audit, installing probes in the pumping stations and sample manholes that allow parameters to be monitored, and the separating network has been reinforced to prevent leaks that increase salinity, which is the main problem of the facility.
For its part, the municipal water company will build a wastewater pumping station (EBAR) in the short term at the confluence of Austria and Portugal streets, very close to the Altadis land, to serve the current needs of the northern sector of the outer zone of the Free Zone and the urban development planned for this area with actions underway such as the former Ibérica Aga or Pastoriza. To this end, it has requested the granting of an administrative title for the occupation of the below-grade land within the enclosure and the occupation of the maritime-terrestrial public domain. The budget for this work amounts to €103,787 with a completion period of three months. The EBAR is designed to evacuate the contributions from the entire northern exterior area with the possibility of incorporating new flows in the future by expanding the pumping group.
The president of Aguas de Cádiz has highlighted that "the knowledge of the hydraulic needs that will be required in the future and the planning of urban development make possible the immediate development of execution units that contribute to activating the economy and employment in the city with the implementation of new companies and respect for the environment."
For his part, the delegate of the Free Zone has pointed out that "with the improvement in hydraulic infrastructure and the agreement with Aguas de Cádiz, the Free Zone wants to guarantee its environmental commitment, in accordance with its line of work framed in sustainability and the blue and green economy that it is imprinting on its management, with the premise that without effective environmental management the negative impact even reverts to the working conditions of the workers and users of the tax area."