Water and sewerage in El Marquesado will cost 16.187 euros per home

The 2,502 homes of more than 35 square metres on the left bank of the El Marquesado road up to the marshland area will have to pay an average of 16,187.42 euros to have drinking water, sewerage and storm drainage. The overall cost of the works amounts to 40,500,921.99 euros, according to the data that the mayor of Chiclana, José María Román, passed on Sunday to neighbourhood representatives of Pinar de los Franceses and El Marquesado. Payment could be spread over ten years at a rate of 134.89 euros per month. The amount is an average: larger homes will pay more and smaller ones less. The calculation is based on a project commissioned by the Ayuntamiento from the company Técnicos Gades, which has quantified both the existing homes and the cost of the works. On private streets, the pipes will reach their entrance, unless the owners agree to hand over the roads for public use. Román has explained that the supply and storm drainage networks are simpler than the sewerage one, where work will have to be done with the elevations and some pumping points provided for.

The more than 40 million euros represent less than initially estimated, since the drinking water tank planned in Miralamar will not be built as it is being carried out in La Pedrera, and some works already carried out by the Ayuntamiento in various areas will not be necessary. "Previously there were some estimates, but now we are talking about certain cost data," the mayor has stated. The next step is to prepare the specifications to draft the special plan prior to the works, whose processing may take about 18 months. After that will come the infrastructure installation works. Román has indicated that the project was well received by those present at the meeting and that it remains to be seen whether the Junta de Andalucía gets involved and allows the planned costs to be reduced.

If progress continues in other areas of the municipality, the mayor will hold a new neighbourhood meeting on Saturday, November 14, from 10.30 hours, at the Venta Blas, in Pago del Humo. At the meeting, the Ayuntamiento handed out folders with the letters sent to the Junta de Andalucía requesting the reactivation of the agreement signed in 2005, together with the real costs and the plans of the supply, sewerage and storm drainage networks.