The Board of Directors of ACUAES authorizes the tender of the contract for the drafting of the project of the Can Picafort treatment plant and the underwater emissary of Santa Margalida (Mallorca)

The new WWTP will have a reuse system for the entire volume of purified water, with an emissary that will drive the unreused purified water flow to an area devoid of posidonia located in the bay of Alcudia, 3.5 kilometers from the beach of Son Bauló. It is expected that the works will be cofinanced by 80% by the Next Generation funds of the European Union within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan

The Board of Directors of the state-owned company Aguas de las Cuencas de España, of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, has authorised the tender and tender of the contract for technical assistance services for the elaboration of the study of alternatives, the environmental studies and the drafting of the construction projects of the treatment plant of Can Picafort and the underwater emissary of Santa Margalida, in the Island of Mallorca.

The tender budget for the contract amounts to 711,071 euros and the maximum term for the execution of the works is 12 months.

The action, which was declared of general interest to the State and whose investment is expected to reach 19.5 million euros, includes the construction of a network of collectors that will transport the discharges from Can Picafort to a new WWTP, with biological treatment of active sludge and located on the left bank of the Torrent de Son Real, or Son Bauló, as well as a new land and submarine emissary that will lead the unreused purified flow to an area devoid of posidonia located in the bay of Alcudia, about 3.5 kilometers from the beach of Son Bauló.

The new WWTP will have a tertiary treatment that will allow the reuse of the entire volume of purified water. It is planned to provide a drive to a pond for storage of this flow that allows to regulate its use in irrigation and bowing uses.

Taking into account the limited period remaining in force of the DIA, published in the Official State Gazette No. 161 of 7 July 2017 and with an extension granted until 23 June 2023, it is planned to prepare a new environmental impact study, which will allow to process, jointly, the finally planned solution (collectors, wastewater pumping stations, WWTP, regulatory pond and emissary). All the conditions that may arise from this new environmental impact study will be considered in the projects referred to before its approval.

The works are expected to be co-financed by 80% by the Next Generation funds of the European Union within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.