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LATIN AMERICA
MOTA-ENGIL COLOMBIA
FOR A MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
CANOAS LIFTING STATION IS A UNIQUE PROJECT IN LATIN AMERICA.
T his is what we are committed to with Mota-Engil Colombia’s
project: to be participants in the recovery of the Bogotá river, a project that will contribute significantly to the sustainable development goal: clean water and sanitation, with which we guarantee the availability of water, its sustainable management and sanitation for all.
The Canoas Lifting Station, assigned to Mota-Engil Colombia, is part of a mega- project carried out by the Colombian government to enable the cleaning of the Bogotá river.
The system, made up of the sewage network, the interceptor tunnel, the Canoas Lifting Station and the Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) of Canoas, will treat wastewater in southern Bogotá and Soacha for the first time. This way, Mota-Engil Colombia is part of the team that will leave the biggest positive ecological mark in the history of this city, with over seven million people, included in the community of Bogotá and Soacha.
The Canoas Lifting Station is a unique project in Latin America, given the technical complexity that characterises
this type of work. Mota-Engil Colombia will carry out the design, the civil
and electromechanical construction
of the work, its commissioning
and its monitoring.
Six pumps will be installed, with
a capacity of 6.4 m3/s each, generating an installed capacity of 38.4 m3/s.
This lifting station will receive the wastewater from the Tunjuelo Canoas Interceptor to pump it to the future Canoas WWTP, making it an important component of the Bogotá river sanitation program.
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