There has been an ongoing dispute betwwen the Junta de Andalucia and Vera council about sewage treatment appears to be over as the Junta has agreed to build a new sewage works at Mojacar.
The new plant will be built on the site of the old one and will process sewage from three Levante districts . It also seems that Vera council only discovered the news via a press release .This feels like a snub to them and the planning councillor has made it clear that they all need to work together on such issues .
The Junta , in the past has attempted to get the Vera council to build a plant to serve seven districts .However the plant which is being built in Vera is for that town alone .There had been rumour that Vera would increase the size of their plant and include Mojacar and Garrucha , but this cannot now be on the cards any more .
This battle began in 2007 when Vera announced that they would build their own plant at a cost of 9 million euros and that it would be functioning in 2009 ..The philosophy of vera is that all districts should deal with their own sewage .This is not echoed by the Junta .The Junta plan it was said could pump 44 million litres of untreated sewage a day into the sea , a charge that they have denied .
