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The Marm delivers to the city of a water-treatment of water of latest generation Hellín

13/02/2010

February 12, 2010

The Director general of the water of the Ministry of environment and Rural and marine environment, Marta Morén, has presididoel Act of assignment to the Hellín Town Hall of the new station of treatment of drinking water of Hellín (ETAP), executed by the Government of Spain through the sociedad estatal waters of the basin of the Segura (AcuaSegura), and that, together with the two new deposits, guarantee the processing and distribution of water of the highest quality by incorporating the latest technology after a joint investment of EUR 9.4 million.

Water-this new treatment, which replaces the former built in the Decade of the sixties of the last century and now will be managed by the City Council of Hellín, boasts the most advanced techniques, such as ozonation, which provides an impeccable disinfection water, and filtering in active carbon, which eliminates any possible aftertaste you may have.

This facility will amply allow more than 30,000 inhabitants of Hellín (a number which multiply in summer and Easter-drinking water organoleptic characteristics (colour, smell and taste) of unbeatable quality.

Water supply was carried out so far from the former ETAP of La Losilla, located on the highway with the municipal district of Isso, dealing with the world river water through a channel of transportation opened from Liétor Hellín. In addition, the storage capacity of existing municipal deposits so far was insufficient in order to provide a service with adequate assurances of supply, which had the risk of cuts from water to the population, precisely at times of maximum daily consumption.

The new ETAP has a production of 20,400 cubic metres per day and is fully automated, with the most comprehensive process to purify the water: adjustment of pH, coagulation, Flocuación-decantation, sand filtration, filtration in coal active Granular (CAG) and chlorination, ozonation. It also has a line for the adequate treatment of the sludge generated during the process of purification, including its thickening by gravity, dehydration through centrifuge and storage prior to their transportation to a controlled landfill.

The ETAP includes a complete laboratory of control analytical, with storage of samples and reagents. In addition, it is equipped with all the equipment adapted to the new rules concerning control analysis. There is a new deposit of water treated 1,000 cubic metres capacity-building, in which pumping groups needed to raise the water to the main municipal deposits of Hellín and its hamlets have been installed within the plantwhich can be regulated and controlled from the own ETAP through a system of remote control.

Two new drinking water storage tanks built in the "Cross of the lobster" spot have 5,000 cubic metres capacity, and are formed by walls of concrete, of rectangular shape. In addition, there have been 4,400 metres of new supply pipes.

The immediate benefits of this project, whose total investment amounts to 9.4 million euros (85 per cent financed by acuaSegura with the Cohesion Fund of the European Union and the remaining 15% contributed by the City Council of Hellín) are improvement of the reliability and assurance of supplyas well as the quality of supply for the population of Hellín.

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