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PARIS (Dow Jones)-- French waste and water utility Veolia
Environnement SA (VE) Tuesday said that the SIAAP, the
interdepartmental wastewater authority for the Greater Paris area,
has selected OTV, a subsidiary of Veolia Water Solutions &
Technologies, to head the consortium that has been awarded the
contract to renovate the Seine Aval biological wastewater treatment
plant in Acheres.
MAIN FACTS:
- After the Chicago plant, Seine Aval is the second largest
wastewater treatment plant in the world.
- The contract awarded to the consortium is worth EUR776.7 million
and is the biggest ever signed by OTV.
- Veolia Environnement will have a 25% share of the total
revenue.
- OTV has three major assignments: to lead the project and
coordinate all the participants in the Biosav consortium
(architects, design firms, civil engineering and wastewater
treatment process companies); to design and build the structures;
to supply the treatment process.
- In the contract, OTV has made clear commitments to the safety,
reliability and programming of the works, which will enable SIAAP
to continue providing and guaranteeing top-quality service to the
6.5 million customers throughout the period of the renovation
project.
- Commissioning of the new facilities is planned for the end of
2017.
- By Geraldine Amiel, Dow Jones Newswires
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