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LATIN AMERICA
COLOMBIA
MOTA-ENGIL COLOMBIA WINS CONTRACT FOR
CONSTRUCTION OF THE CANOAS PUMPING STATION
ENVIRONMENTALLY, THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PROJECTS IN THE REGION.
Mota‐Engil Colombia won the contract for the construction and assisted operation of a Wastewater Pumping Station in the Canoas region.
The project – which in addition to the construction of the pumping station and complementary works, includes the process of verification and revision of the project, and its assistance – will allow an intervention in the existing scheme concerning wastewater from the Fucha, Tintal and Tunjuelo drainage basin and from the municipality of Soacha, which corresponds to about 70% of the city’s wastewater.
This project, awarded to the consortium formed by Mota‐Engil Colombia and Empresa Constructora Brasil (ECB) in the amount of approximately 98 million euros, is one of the largest granted by Empresa de Acueducto y Alcantarillado de Bogotá in the last ten years. The works will be carried out over a period of 44 months, so the Pumping Station should be operational in 2022.
The construction of the Canoas Pumping Station will have a positive impact on Colombian society, since it will enable the Bogotá river to be cleaned up using
a process of pumping wastewater so
that it can flow into the river without contaminating it, and it will also be possible to activate the city’s wastewater tunnel system.
This project will also ensure the production of energy, since the power station will transport the wastewater in ducts to be released in a controlled manner, ensuring that there is a permanent flow in the river, which will generate more than three thousand kW of energy per year.
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