Albiol proposes to build large interceptor tanks to prevent spills into the sea

The former mayor of Badalona, ​​Xavier Garcia Albiol, presented yesterday one of his electoral proposals that consists of alleviating by 75% the constant fecal and polluting discharges that in times of torrential rains, due to the sewage spillways, go directly to the sea.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
08 November 2022 Tuesday 10:31
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Albiol proposes to build large interceptor tanks to prevent spills into the sea

The former mayor of Badalona, ​​Xavier Garcia Albiol, presented yesterday one of his electoral proposals that consists of alleviating by 75% the constant fecal and polluting discharges that in times of torrential rains, due to the sewage spillways, go directly to the sea. To prevent these discharges, he proposes the construction of large interceptor tanks at strategic points in the city.

Badalona has nine hydraulic basins that discharge dirty water directly into the sea during episodes of heavy rain, due to the low capacity of the local sewage system. "This causes serious contamination on the beaches," says Albiol, which is why he has commissioned a group of experts to analyze possible solutions. The most feasible is the construction of interceptor deposits, which accumulate discharges and prevent them from flowing into the sea.

In the city there is only one of these deposits in the Rambla Sant Joan "that we built during my first year as mayor" in 2013 and that accumulates the discharges and later progressively channels them towards the sewage system. However, experts consider that nine more are needed, three of them urgent, such as the one proposed in Martí i Pujol street, near the beach, whose capacity would be 69,000 m3 and would cost approximately 12 million euros. A second in Carrer Prim, with 6,800 m3 that would cost three million, and a third in Alfons XIII that could take on 25,500 m3 of discharges and cost eight million.

In the event that the nine interceptor tanks can be built, the technicians calculate that 75% of the putrefied water that now drains directly onto the beach would stop being dumped into the sea. The financing of these infrastructures, according to the popular leader "could be done with own resources from the remaining treasury."