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The plant has celebrated World Water Day today with the visit of fifty students from the Juan Navarro school in this hamlet, who have visited the facilities to know first hand and through the explanation of the technicians responsible for the operation of this plant
The Councilor for Water in the City of Lorca, Angel Mecca, has reported that the effort developed by the Local Administration in the field of water purification and reuse achieved during last year to recover a total of 3.2 hm3, which were delivered To the Irrigation Community.
This is a figure that represents an increase of 300,000 m3 more than in 2015, which is the highest contribution in the history of this water treatment infrastructure.
Ángel Meca said that these data confirm that the work being carried out by the City Council, in close collaboration with the Water Ministry of the Regional Government, is giving its result.
In fact we have made significant progress in water reuse, going from being a pending subject to being able to irrigate part of our fields with these resources.
That is why we have to intensify our commitment to this, developing new infrastructures for water treatment, as we plan to do in different places in our vast municipality.
In our commitment and we will move forward.
The Edil de Agua has explained that the Wastewater Treatment Plant (EDAR) of La Hoya is the main infrastructure in terms of water reuse of our municipality.
We are talking about a plant that allows us to recover 3.2 hm3, a figure to which we must add another 400,000 m3 of the rest of plants located in the municipality.
It should be noted that along with the La Hoya WWTP, Lorca has a large battery of purification plants such as the one that allows the treatment of water derived from the tanning industry, as well as those located in La Paca (Río Turrilla ), La Parroquia and Almendricos.
The La Hoya Treatment Plant uses active sludge through a double stage with anaerobic digestion and ultraviolet disinfection for the treatment of water and is designed to serve a population of approximately 80,000 inhabitants.
The excess of sludge produced in each of the stages is thickened and stabilized in an anaerobic digestion process, generating about 490,000 Hm3 / year of biogas, which, in turn, is used by a motor generator to produce about 623,000 kwh / year Of electricity.
The digested sludge is later used for agriculture, the total production of dehydrated sludge exceeds 7.6 tons per year.
These facilities were put into operation in June 2010 in order to improve the quality of the treated water.
The tertiary treatment consists of coagulation-flocculation chambers, a lamellar decantation, sand filtration and water disinfection with ultraviolet light and hypochlorite dosing.
Ángel Meca has highlighted that thanks to the work developed in this plant, we have reached 70% in water reuse in the municipality and we will try to increase it to 90%, facing the construction of new collectors in areas that currently lack this service.
The WWTP of La Hoya today celebrated World Water Day with the visit of fifty students from the school Juan Navarro of this hamlet, who have traveled the facilities to know firsthand and through the explanation of the technicians responsible for the operation Of this plant.
The schoolchildren have also participated in a plantation of trees that contribute to enhance the green areas of this facility.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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