Consortium to Build Sewerage Pipeline in Colombia

Mexican company ICA, along with its consortium partners Cotrisa and Estyma Estudios y Manejos, will today begin construction work on the Interceptor Norte sewerage pipeline in the city of Medellin, Colombia.

Medellin city water utility EPM awarded the $63.7m contract to the consortium in February 2011, according to bnamericas.com.

EPM’s director of water Francisco Piedrahita said the consortium will complete the work on the pipeline in approximately 990 days.

The work includes the construction of a 7.7km of pipeline between the districts of Moravia and Bello, where a wastewater treatment plant will be built.

The project is part of the second phase of EPM’s $478m Medellin river sanitation plan.

The project will be supervised by Ingetec Gerencia y Supervision and Ingetec Ingenieros Consultores Civiles y Electricos.