Torrevieja’s Town Hall has announced that work on Europe’s largest Desalination Plant will halt at the end of the June; to help reduce road congestion on the N332 and so as not to inconvenience visitors during the busy summer months.
Although the plant itself is almost complete, there has been much controversy over the route and disruption that shall be caused by the laying of the double pipelines from the centre, through the southern part of Torrevieja and into the Muelle de la Sal. Work will stop until September 15th, when schools reopen and the last Spanish tourists have returned home.
AcuaMed, the company responsible for building the plant shall now not be able to meet their proposed finalization date of September 1st. The Torrevieja desalination plant will be the second largest in the world and the largest in Europe, when completed, at a cost of over €300 million euros.
This is the second time that AcuaMed have changed their completion date as back in May 2007 Adrián Baltanás, the general director of Acuamed announced that the plant would be fully operational and producing enough water to provide 2.4 million people and 64,000 farms with purified water by September 2008!
