The Lantania-Atner consortium has won the contract to build a wastewater treatment plant in the city of Salé, on Morocco's Atlantic coast. The two companies are a Spanish construction group and a Moroccan company specialising in water and wastewater treatment.
In Morocco, the city of Salé is at the centre of a sanitation project. Redal, the company that manages the distribution of electricity, drinking water and sanitation in Rabat, Salé and Skhirat-Témara, has chosen the Lantania-Atner consortium to carry out this project. Lantania, a construction and public works group based in Madrid, Spain, and Atner, a Moroccan company specialising in water and wastewater treatment, have been commissioned to build a wastewater treatment plant in Salé, on the kingdom’s Atlantic coast.
The consortium has a budget of €8.9 million to build the future plant. The plant will have a treatment capacity of 10,000 m3 of wastewater per day. The effluent collected from 75,000 people will be redirected to the Salé wastewater treatment plant via a new outfall. This will be followed by pre-treatment and treatment by extended biological aeration as well as the removal of nutrients, nitrogen and phosphorus. Lantania will also equip the plant with tertiary wastewater treatment equipment in the final phase.
Delivery of the plant in 18 months
The wastewater treated by the future plant will be returned to nature, reducing the pollution of waterways and avoiding the disappearance of aquatic biodiversity. The new plant will also take care of the sludge resulting from the treatment of effluents through thickening and dehydration techniques.
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The two partners have 18 months to complete the project, starting from the start date of the works. The construction of the Salé wastewater treatment plant will bring the Moroccan government closer to its goal of treating 100 million m3 of wastewater per year by 2027. By 2050, this volume is expected to increase to nearly 340 million m3 per year, representing an 80% treatment rate in Morocco.
Inès Magoum
