Veolia Water Secures French Water Contract

A consortium involving Veolia Water has secured a contract to reconstruct the Marquette-lez-Lille wastewater treatment plant in place of an obsolete plant in north France.

The project design and construction was awarded to a consortium headed by OTV France Nord, a subsidiary of Veolia Water and Norpac, Demathieu & Bard, Amodiag, Bonnard & Gardel and Alh.

The new plant will have the capacity to treat wastewater for an equivalent population of 620,000.

The plant will have two separate treatment trains, one for wastewater to treat 2.8m³ per second and another for stormwater, capable of treating 5.3m³ per second.

The project will generate a revenue of €75m ($104m) for France-based Veolia Water, which will operate the plant for six years, generating an estimated cumulative revenue of €28m ($39m).