Construction of the US$710mn Atotonilco wastewater treatment plant in Mexico's Hidalgo state is scheduled to begin by end-Q1, national water authority Conagua spokesperson Karen López told BNamericas.
"They need to move all the machinery and equipment to the site, so we're talking about construction beginning in one or two months' time," López said.
At a ceremony in Mexico City earlier this week, Conagua signed a contract with the consortium that was awarded the contract to build the plant, the authority reported in a release.
Conagua head José Luis Luege Tamargo, environment minister Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada, infrastructure developer IDEAL, shareholder and tycoon Carlos Slim, Atlatec head Alejandro Garza, Luis Castilla of Acciona Agua and José Luis Guerrero Alvarez of construction firm ICA attended the ceremony.
Local firm Desarrollo y Construcciones Urbanas (Dycusa) and Green Gas Pioneer Crossing Energy, a subsidiary of US firm Green Gas, also form part of the consortium that will be responsible for operating the plant for the next 22 years.
With an initial capacity to treat 23m3/s of wastewater, Atotonilco's construction represents a major step towards improving the historically low wastewater treatment coverage in the Mexico valley metropolitan area, Luege Tamargo said at the ceremony.
The plant is expected to treat 60% of wastewater produced in the area, which currently has one of the lowest coverage levels in the country, at 11.6%.
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