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Befesa awarded drinking water plant contract by Ames and Brión in A Coruña (Spain)

The public company responsible for water projects and services of the regional government of Galicia has awarded Befesa, in a joint venture with Puentes y Calzadas, the contract to carry out the first stage of the supply works to Ames and Brión in A Coruña, worth more than €5 million.

The villages in the municipality of Ames are currently supplied by natural spring water from the streams in the area and from wells, which has led to supply problems that have worsened in recent years due to a significant increase in the population.

The purpose of the awarded works is to resolve these supply problems, as well as to establish supplies for two future industrial estates.

The project involves constructing a drinking water plant that will take water from the River Tambre, with an initial capacity of 175 litres per second, which can be doubled in a second phase. The plant will be equipped with a water line with coagulation-flocculation, lamellar settling, and a final filtration and disinfection process, as well as a sludge line that will thicken the sludge before dehydrating it. The project will also involve a 7,300 cubic metre regulating tank on the downstream side of the plant and an upstream basin of 10,000 cubic metres in Agrón. The final part of the works involves the construction of ductile iron pipelines to connect the drinking water plant with the supply tanks of several neighbouring populations.

This project, which will benefit more than 40,000 inhabitants, is an important contract for Befesa Agua since it is its first contract with the public administration in Galicia and it increases the capacity of its facilities to supply and treat water to more than eight million people.