The Minister of Agriculture and Water, Antonio Cerdá, and the Mayor of Alhama de Murcia, Fernando Alfonso Ceron, today inaugurated the sewage of El Berro, whose treatment capacity is 240 cubic meters per day, and will serve a population equivalent 1,200 inhabitants, so that "locality expectations are exceeded in the next 20 or 25 years."
The project has required an investment of 706,000 euros, funded 80 percent by the Cohesion Fund of the European Union.
Cerda said that this infrastructure includes tertiary treatment system of filtration and disinfection to "perfect the process of wastewater treatment and exceeds the quality parameters required by European legislation."
The plant also has environmental protection measures and integrated into the natural landscape of the surrounding landscape Espuña.
Cerda said that this treatment plant "is located in the highest part of the Region", so, he remarked, the "claim" regional government "is to all nuclei scattered regional territory," to give them a sewage or connecting via a network to the main sewage collectors. "
He added that the construction of this sewage "cancels the old plant was insufficient and outdated and gives a sewage cress design with the latest technology in water purification," he said.
The Minister stressed that "we exceeded water purification parameters required by the European Union."
99 percent of the urban population is already connected to treatment plants that remove 98 percent of the pollutant load and provide a year additional water "of the highest quality and safety for direct agricultural reuse" 100 cubic hectometers, concluded .
Source: CARM