The mayor of San Javier, Pepa Garcia and President of the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura, José Salvador Fuentes Zorita this morning signed the act of disposal of waste water treatment station of the municipality to municipality of San Javier after the opening of the facilities by the Minister of Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs, Elena Espinosa has discovered the plaque at the entrance to the facility on the premises of Government Representative, Rafael Martínez Tovar, the Minister for the Environment and Water in the Region of Murcia, Antonio Cerdá, and the Secretary General of PSRM-PSOE, Pedro Saura.
After the formal ceremony, the mayor of San Javier, Pepa Garcia opened the floor for interventions stressing "the importance of the new facilities because they answer to the long demand for a municipality and doubling its population in summer is the most is the Mar Menor shores. "
The mayor of San Javier Minister thanked the "extraordinary investment of more than 21 million made by the Government of Spain in this infrastructure will appreciate both of which benefit farmers and irrigators and all the neighbors, and together with Station of Los Alcazares and San Pedro del Pinatar bring us almost to the Mar Menor zero discharge. "
To achieve zero discharge "we're about to get" the Minister Elena Espinosa noted in his statement to the media "will complement the existing infrastructure with a collector edge all the Mar Menor, whose works are pending and will involve environmental investment of more than 45 million euros. "
This new work will solve any possible discharge flow circumstantial, treated or not to direct them to the emissary of the Mar Menor Sur that is already built, as a way to ensure zero discharge to the lagoon.
The Wastewater Treatment Station of San Javier has the capacity to treat a wastewater flow of 30,000 cubic meters per day, equivalent to a population of 160,000.
The facilities consist of three separate water lines for pre-treatment processes, biological treatment, secondary sedimentation and tertiary treatment by filtration, ensuring both the quality of the resulting water for reuse, and flexibility of operation against the variation of flow itself a coastal town such as San Javier, and population fluctuations.
The Minister of Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs, Elena Espinosa has reiterated the commitment of the government of Spain with the Region of Murcia in water and particularly in the full recovery of the Mar Menor and its sustainable development, has announced actions in the worth around 33 million euros for the improvement of coastal areas, and restoration and protection of maritime-terrestrial public domain.
In the presence of Minister of Agriculture and Water in the Region of Murcia, Antonio Cerdá which has placed Murcia as "debugging example in Europe, with 98 percent of the country connected to treatment systems", the Minister has referred to the protocol collaborative working in the Ministry and the Autonomous Community of Murcia, under the National Plan on Water Quality which will include a line of activities of general interest, among which is the collector that border the sea Minor, another line that will address the adequacy of scrubbers near sensitive areas, some of them in the environment of the Mar Menor, and a third in the works to be carried out cleaning and purification of municipalities that were already covered in the General Plan prepared about by the regional administration.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier