Although we seem to have heard it so many times before, the Junta de Andalucía is proposing to speed up proceedings relating to the proposed water treatment plant in Nerja.
While many municipalities are busy building second, or even third, plants, Nerja is still without any sort of proper water treatment system, a scandalous state of affairs for a tourist town with a resident population of over 20,000 people and a summer influx of around 60,000 visitors.
The plant has once again assumed the status of ‘urgent’ and the current plan envisages puting the contract out to tender as early as September. The land for the plant, a 10,000 square metre plot in Fuente del Baden, has long since been transferred to the Ministry of Environment.
The whole project, budgeted at €36 million, is being fully financed by the Ministry of Environment. The current date for an operational sewage treatment plant is 2012.