Tender process now at final stage for solution to water shortage and for improved quality of water in Corfu
water supply
28 Ιουλίου 2018
/ 14:14
ATHENS. The news is, however, published with reservations (we have heard that work is going to commence on several previous occasions). This time the Ministry of Development has said that they have reached the final stages and by the end of the year the first stage of the Corfu and Paxos water supply project will have been tendered out.
It is the biggest public work undertaken in Corfu over the last few decades and everybody hopes that DEYAK (Public Water Supply Company) will fulfil its responsibilities.
On Thursday Corfu Municipality and DEYAK received the good news from the responsible department in the Ministry of Development that the work for the first stage of the much talked about Corfu water supply project will have been tendered out.
The Ministry's long letter gives an account of the labyrinthine procedure which the 'dams' project has gone through over the last few years. It was initially divided in two - Corfu and Paxos (in 2012 the islands were separated and in Paxos over 60% of the one section has now been completed). It was then divided into three stages, but the project will be carried out completely as initially planned. 1,267 stremma (just over 313 acres) has been expropriated in Corfu and 9 stremma in Paxos to a cost of 8.7 million Euros (5.2 from European funds and 3.5 from Greek funds).
The proposal has been back and forward to Europe at least twice for revisions and updates.
The first stage - to tackle the urgent water supply needs of Corfu Town and Lefkimmi, with a budget of 47 million Euros and using a section of the expropriated land - has been included in the 2014-2020 Programme and procedures have commenced with a view to all the work being tendered out in 2018.
Works:
1. New central aqueduct
2. 10,000 cubic metre river reservoir with a pipeline connecting it to the network
3. Water demineralization plant in Chrysida - 15,000 cubic metres
4. Reservoir in Neohoraki - 1,000 cubic metres
5. Reservoir in Ag. Nikolaou - 1,000 cubic metres
6. Water demineralization plant in Neohoraki - 8,000 cubic metres
7. New water demineralization plant in Kakotrafo (currently a sports ground) - 8 - 10,000 cubic metres
8. Pumping stations and pipelines
9. Runoffs and disposal of residues from water demineralization plants.
10. Six new wells
The construction of dams and lake reservoirs will be completed in the second and third stages according to the initial plan.
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On Thursday Corfu Municipality and DEYAK received the good news from the responsible department in the Ministry of Development that the work for the first stage of the much talked about Corfu water supply project will have been tendered out.
The Ministry's long letter gives an account of the labyrinthine procedure which the 'dams' project has gone through over the last few years. It was initially divided in two - Corfu and Paxos (in 2012 the islands were separated and in Paxos over 60% of the one section has now been completed). It was then divided into three stages, but the project will be carried out completely as initially planned. 1,267 stremma (just over 313 acres) has been expropriated in Corfu and 9 stremma in Paxos to a cost of 8.7 million Euros (5.2 from European funds and 3.5 from Greek funds).
The proposal has been back and forward to Europe at least twice for revisions and updates.
The first stage - to tackle the urgent water supply needs of Corfu Town and Lefkimmi, with a budget of 47 million Euros and using a section of the expropriated land - has been included in the 2014-2020 Programme and procedures have commenced with a view to all the work being tendered out in 2018.
Works:
1. New central aqueduct
2. 10,000 cubic metre river reservoir with a pipeline connecting it to the network
3. Water demineralization plant in Chrysida - 15,000 cubic metres
4. Reservoir in Neohoraki - 1,000 cubic metres
5. Reservoir in Ag. Nikolaou - 1,000 cubic metres
6. Water demineralization plant in Neohoraki - 8,000 cubic metres
7. New water demineralization plant in Kakotrafo (currently a sports ground) - 8 - 10,000 cubic metres
8. Pumping stations and pipelines
9. Runoffs and disposal of residues from water demineralization plants.
10. Six new wells
The construction of dams and lake reservoirs will be completed in the second and third stages according to the initial plan.
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