Veoilia & WTE share water treatment contract in Poland

Group to share €500 million contract to turn Warsaw's treatment plant into the largest in Poland.

France's Veolia (NYSE: VE) and Germany water company WTE have won a contract in a consortium to upgrade and extend the Czajka wastewater treatment plant in Warsaw, Poland.

Attributed by Warsaw’s public water and wastewater authority following an international call for tenders, the contract is worth an estimated amount of approximately €500 million for the consortium.

Aslo participating in the consortium is Warbud, a Polish civil engineering company.

The new plant will have the capacity to treat 435,000 cubic meters of wastewater per day, and up to 515,000 cubic meters per day in peak periods.

With a population of 2 million inhabitants, Warsaw is being faced with growth in its volumes of wastewater, which are currently above the 200,000 cubic meter/day capacity of the existing plant.

The upgrading and extension of the plant will be carried out in phases in order to enable the plant to continue operating throughout the period of the works, scheduled for completion at the end of 2010.

After completion, Czajka will be the biggest wastewater treatment plant in Poland.

Veolia will implement technologies developed by its subsidiaries OTV and Kruger to treate wastewater and eliminate odors.

Veolia already has contracts in the area, particularly in the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary, and has been operating in Poland since 1990.

In addition to the design and installation of water production and wastewater treatment systems, Veolia has also been providing 85,000 people with water and wastewater services in the municipalities of Tarnowskie Gory, Miasteczko Slaskie and Woźniki.

Veolia is a world leader in water and wastewater services, serving 108 million people worldwide.

Source: media.cleantech.com