Toledo.- The General Director of the State Commercial Company Aguas de las Cuencas de España (ACUAES), and the Mayor of Consuegra (Toledo), José Manuel Quijorna, have today signed the collaboration agreement for the execution, financing and exploitation of the works of incorporation of flows to the treatment plant, whose expected investment amounts to 3,025,000 euros (VAT included).
The event, which took place in the Assembly Hall of the City Council, was attended by the subdelegate of the Government in Toledo, Carlos Ángel Devia.
The works complete the action that ACUAES has developed in the municipality and that has consisted in the construction of a new treatment plant with an investment of 3.8 million euros.
Carlos Ángel Devia has stressed the importance that the Next Generation Funds of the European Union are having for the municipalities, within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan of the Government of Spain, which in its component 5, contemplates more than 2 billion euros in investments for actions of sanitation, purification, efficiency, savings, reuse and safety of hydraulic infrastructures.
On the other hand, the subdelegate of the Government has highlighted the importance of these works for the correct environmental conservation and quality of the waters of the National Park of the Tables of Daimiel and of the Aquifer 23.
“The Ministry for Transition and the Demographic Challenge, through ACUAES, will have invested more than 47 million euros in the environmental quality of the waters of the region when the actions in the municipalities of Urda, Camuña, Villafranca de los Caballeros, Madridejos, Quintanar de la Orden and Consuegra are completed” explained the deputy delegate of the Government.
For her part, the general director of ACUAES, María Rosa Cobo, has highlighted the importance of these works, which definitively resolve the serious problem of purification and sanitation suffered by Consuegra, contributing to the protection of a natural environment as emblematic as the Daimiel Tablets.
Having solved the problem of purification that existed in the municipality, the sanitation system will now be acted on, through the works of incorporation of flows subject to the agreement signed, which will consist in the execution of the following projects:
• Two storm tanks of capacity 600 m³ and 750 m3 each, expandable in the future to 1,860 m3 and 2,250 m3, respectively, located on each of the banks of the river
• Reliefs to the Amarguillo River located in each of the storm tanks
• Two collectors parallel to the Amarguillo River to the treatment plant, from the current relief to the storm tanks and the storm tanks, crossing below the bridge of the CM4133, to a pre-WWTP registration well
This action, which was declared of general interest of the State, aims to improve the sanitation of Consuegra with a drastic reduction of the nutrients poured into the Amarguillo River, contributing to the conservation of the National Park of the Tables of Daimiel.
The works will be co-financed by 80% by the Next Generation funds of the European Union within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
After the signing ceremony, M.ª Rosa Cobo and José Manuel Quijorna, together with the subdelegate of the Government, went to the new treatment plant, where they were able to verify in situ that the treated waters comply with the emission limit values of the characteristic parameters of the quality of the discharge stipulated by the European regulations.
Thus, since its implementation in June 2022, the treated flow has been 292,032 m3, with the average flow rate being 1,178.3 m3/day, with the output parameters meeting the limits established by the European Directive.