Asturias will invest 2.5 billion in construction of emissary in El Franco
on January 27, 2011
The work of the emissary (which will be 796 meters in length and will benefit 3,300 inhabitants) was awarded to the temporary Union of companies 'Emissary El Franco'. His time of execution is 18 months, so it is expected finished by the autumn of 2012, if weather conditions permit.
After indicate that it will be a work of "certain difficulties, because carries perform drilling below the sea in the final stretch, with highly skilled personnel and use of ships that move the material", Areces also noted that "most of the work only may be in summer"", with the calm sea and respecting the stages of settlement and reproduction of birds". Thus, in the autumn of 2012, would the coast have definitely healthy.
In his speech, he stressed that "the emissary will be located between Viavélez and Valdepares and poured waste water already sound half a kilometer from the coast". Thus eliminating discharges that currently take place without debugging on three points: the port of Viavélez, the beach of Pormenande and Punta Carrales.
The project binds to the "ambitious performance of sanitation in the franc and is launched from 2009", he added. Alvarez Areces. In this sense, Areces referred to the construction of the network of sanitation of the main centres of population in the municipality, such as El Franco, Valdepares, San Pelayo, Viavélez, La Caridad, Arboces and Castiello, as well as the sewage treatment plant of wastewater for a population of 8,500 inhabitants and which will also incorporate the treatment of wastewater in areas industrial. These works "represent an investment of 11.152.917 euros over four years, to which is added the more than two million which will cost the secondary treatment of the wastewater treatment plant". That is, if one adds the submarine emissary, "the Asturian Government is pushing an investment close to 15.5 million euros only in hydraulic works".