Construction underway for Cannes wastewater treatment plant

The construction of a new wastewater treatment plant is now underway in the Cannes Basin.

Bernard Brochand, chairman of the Syndicat intercommunal d'assainissement unifie du bassin cannois and deputy and mayor of Cannes, was in attendance when the first stone was laid at Aquaviva.

He was joined by Isabelle Kocher, chief executive officer of Lyonnaise des Eaux and Bernard Guirkinger, senior executive vice-president of Suez Environnement, an international firm dedicated to water and waste management services.

With the capacity to hold 300,000 people, the plant will process sewage from eight districts in the region: Auribeau sur Siagne, Cannes, Le Cannet, Mandelieu, Mougins, Pegomas, La Roquette sur Siagne and Theoule sur Mer.

Tipped to be a genuinely sustainable creation, Aquaviva workers will dry and then package sludge on site, before sending it to be used as a natural fertiliser for the area's farming community.

The project will also constitute one of the biggest solar farm projects in the Alpes-Maritimes region.

Posted by Lauren Steadman