The Estepona City Council concludes the work for the preliminary reports required for the construction of the desalination plant.

The work has been carried out by a multidisciplinary team of scientists who have used the latest technologies to gain in-depth knowledge of the marine environment where the portable desalination plant has been designed.

The Estepona City Council informs that the works for the previous environmental reports required to authorize the installation of a containerized seawater desalination plant in the area of the river El Castor have been completed.

These actions have been carried out between the mouths of the Castor and Padrón rivers by a team of scientists from the company Taxon Estudios Ambientales, who have used the latest technologies to carry out different studies on the part of the coastline where the outfalls and water intakes of the desalination plant have been planned.

This multidisciplinary team, which includes biologists, chemists, oceanographers, divers, taxonomists and laboratory technicians, carried out different types of records to determine the physical and chemical characteristics of the water and sediment where the outfall is to be installed.

For this preliminary work of collecting samples and probes, the company has used the latest technologies such as an underwater drone, a side scan sonar to study the sediments (bathymetry), oceanographic bottles to capture water at different depths or profiling probes to analyze the conductivity, density or temperature of the water.

After all these actions, which have been carried out to a depth of about 25 meters, the researchers will now begin to prepare the previous environmental reports that are necessary, among others, to obtain the authorization for the desalination plant.

It will be a water treatment plant, which will have a system of photovoltaic power supply panels, which reduces costs and implementation times as it consists of prefabricated modules. It will have an original production capacity of 20,000 cubic meters per day, which can be increased to 30,000 cubic meters per day in the future.

This project is part of the Water Infrastructure Works Plan approved by the Estepona City Council last December. This document was promoted to carry out a series of priority and necessary actions to guarantee the supply to the population and preserve the local economy.