Acciona secures Brazil wastewater treatment contract

An Acciona-Agua-lead consortium has secured a €117m contract from Rio de Janeiro state to build a new wastewater system in São Gonçalo, Brazil.

The other companies in the consortium are Serveng and GEL from Brazil.

The new water infrastructure will provide services to around 250,000 people and will aid the environmental recovery of the Alcântara and Mutondo river basins.

The consortium will build a complete sanitation system, comprising a wastewater treatment plant with a flow rate of 1.2m³ per second and a pumping station with the capacity for 1.99m³ per second.

The consortium will also construct a pumping station at Yamagata with a flow rate of 1,560l per second. A drainage system, eight low-flow pumping stations and connections to households will also be constructed.

Acciona has previously been involved in the renovation and improvement of the Arrudas water treatment plant in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil, which is currently operational.

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Image: Acciona Agua-lead consortium has secured €117m contract to build new wastewater system in Brazil. Photo: courtesy of ACCIONA S.A.