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The Murcia Region’s latest water treatment tank will cost 3.6 million euros and will take around 8 months to build
A new 3.6-million-euro storm water treatment system is being installed in in Torre Pacheco to help store overflow water when there is torrential rainfall in the area, helping to stop flooding and prevent contaminated water draining into the Mar Menor.
Construction work on the storm tank, which consists of a 6,000m3 environmental tank and a 60,000m3 storage capacity lamination basin and can hold the same amount of water as 24 Olympic-size swimming pools, is expected to be completed by the end of summer 2022, in time for the autumn rains.
The Regional Minister for Water, Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and the Environment, Antonio Luengo, claimed during a visit to the works that “this infrastructure will help to prevent the excess flow from the municipality’s sewage network during heavy rainfall from ending up in the Albujón waterway and ending up in the Mar Menor”.
Many towns around the Mar Menor and in the wider Murcia Region are liable to flooding, and improvements to the storm tank system such as those which began last month in Los Alcázares are vital to continue to protect homes and businesses when the dreaded Gota Fría storms come.
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Luengo assured that the new structure in Torre Pacheco “will make it possible to collect and store the first rainwater, which is the most polluted by dirt, for subsequent treatment at the municipality’s treatment plant and make it available to farmers for agricultural irrigation… which contributes to achieving one of the premises of the regional government, which is excellence in the management of the integral water cycle, since, in this case, it is an example of circular economy”.
Image 1: CARM
Image 2: Ayuntamiento de Torre Pacheco
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