With regard to Sanitation, ACOSOL is in charge of a 100 km strip of land along the coast, fully dedicated to tourism industry. Therefore, this service is fundamental, motivating the development of an infrastructure integrating seven sewage treatment plants, where six of them already have Tertiary Treatment System, with capacity to serve a population between 25,000 and 30,000 inhabitants, with the exception of the plant in Casares, designed for 3,000 inhabitants and the only one located in the highland cornice, as the rest of interior cities are connected with sewers to the main sewage pipes, parallel to the coast, being the case of Mijas Pueblo, Benalmádena Pueblo and Ojén.
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It’s worth pointing out that filtration and disinfection through UVA rays to finish with any viruses that might exist in the water is added to Tertiary System.
According to this, the six large Acosol Sewage Plants at the Costa del Sol will all be over the requirements of the EU.
Sewage capacity per capita of the ACOSOL EDAR (Waste Water Purification Stations)
EDAR Casares
EDAR Manilva
EDAR Guadalmansa (Estepona)
EDAR La Víbora (Marbella)
EDAR La Cala de Mijas
EDAR Cerros de Águila (Fueng.-Mijas)
EDAR Arroyo de la Miel (Benalmádena) |
3,100 inhabitants
60,000 inhabitants
140,000 inhabitants
300,000 inhabitants
25,000 inhabitants
240,000 inhabitants
160,000 inhabitants |
The implementation of the Tertiary System at the EDAR (Waste Water Purification Station) of Guadalmansa brought about definitely the start of the Reusing Recycled Water for Irrigation Plan, focused on supplying with these hydraulic resources (that used to be wasted in the sea) to golf courses and garden areas, which has meant a high saving on the amount of water from the usual resources (reservoir, wells, etc.) that can now be used for human consumption.
Over 500 golf courses in the region are irrigated with this water (from 9 to36 holes), besides Selwo Park in Estepona, public park “La Paloma” in Benalmádena, Mijas Racecourse and Marpafut installations in Marbella.
Golf courses currently supplied with recycled water are: El Paraíso, Gualdamina, Los Arqueros, La Quinta, Los Naranjos, Las Brisas, Aloha, Dama de Noche, Montemayor, Benahavís Golf, Los Flamingos, La Zagaleta, El Campanario, Magna Marbella, La Resina, Doña Julia, El Cortesín, La Duquesa, La Cala, La Noria, Calanova, Torrequebrada, Cabopino, Santa María, Cerrado del Águila and El Chaparral.
More new applications for the service have been received and, in some of them, works are being done in order to connect pipes to the Plants where recycled water comes from.
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