The mayor of Nerja was in Sevilla on Wednesday in an attempt to find out the latest situation regarding the proposed sewage plant.
The mayor, José Alberto Armijo, met with the new director of the Agencia Andaluza del Agua, Jaime Palop, to discuss progress regarding the environmental impact study which needs to be carried out before the project can begin.
The Nerja sewage plant has been ‘in the planning’ now for some 40 years. In 2002, the Council ceded a plot of land in Fuente del Baden as the site for the proposed €36 million plant. In July 2007, the Council were informed that an environmental impact study, necessary before the project could even be put out to tender, was to be commissioned.
At the meeting in Sevilla on Wednesday, the director of the Agencia Andaluza del Agua, Jaime Palop, apparently stated that he would make sure the environmental impact study is awarded before September 2008. He added that it could then be possible for the works to be put out to tender in 2011.