The storm tank on Fray Luis de León Street is expected to be ready before April to minimise the impact of new flooding episodes in this area of Platja d’en Bossa, as well as to prevent contaminated runoff from reaching the sea. The Ibiza City Council presented the project on Monday. The infrastructure has a budget of 968,000 euros.
The underground reservoir will capture the flow circulating through a stormwater collector on the same road. Through a lamination system, it will “sieve, separate and remove grease from the contaminated part, which will be diverted to the sewage network”, explained the Councillor for the Environment, Jordi Grivé.
Until now, all the material dragged along during heavy rains flowed into the sea through the collector on Fray Luis de León Street. The storm tank will retain the first runoff, which carries most of the pollutants, and pump it to the treatment plant.
The remaining flow, already filtered and cleaned, will continue towards the beach. In this way, “the quality of the water retained and sent to the treatment plant is improved” and “the dragging of sand and sediment into the sea is minimised”, according to the City Council.
Work on this infrastructure, which has a completion period of four and a half months, has been awarded to the company Jaralia Integral S.L. and is financed with funds from the Sustainable Tourism Tax (ITS). This is the first storm tank managed by the municipality, as the other two currently in operation —the one in the port of Vila (Avinguda de Santa Eulària) and the one on Avinguda Vuit d’Agost— fall under the responsibility of the Balearic Government through the Balearic Agency for Water and Environmental Quality (Abaqua).
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