A new drinking water plant will have to be built for Auch, Aubiet and Marsan. After years of procrastination, the thing is done. It remains to find the funding. The investment will be expensive, and the Agglo, at the community council on Thursday evening in Duran, announced the method.
On the one hand, upstream management of sanitation has improved the performance of wastewater treatment. This leads to lower costs. The variable portion of the Agglo will drop over 4 years from € 0.8811 / m3 to € 0.6811 / m3, i.e. a decrease of € 0.05 / m3.
On the other hand, the cost of the future plant is around € 24 million, 50% of which is paid by the Water Agency and 7.5% HT by the departmental council. The price of drinking water on the community variable portion will increase between 2021 and 2024, going from 0.5869 € / m3 currently to 0.8269 € / m3, i.e. an increase of 0.05 € / m3. The council voted these changes unanimously, but the file of the drinking water plant is not closed so far.
A meeting was held Wednesday evening in Aubiet, which saw the postponement of the vote for the creation of the Auch-Aubiet drinking water union. Creation validated by the previous community council, and necessary for the construction of the plant, pipes and structures. A “small misunderstanding” would be at the origin of this Nth report: who will own this equipment? “Who finances what, who manages what and how? The stakes are enormous, admitted the president of the Agglo, Pascal Mercier. This can have an impact on the price of water. It remains to be agreed with the union Eau Aubiet-Marsan on a number of points that affect the governance of this future union, essential. ” The same day in Aubiet, the representatives of the Agglo saw that “clarifications were necessary”. The mayor of Auch assured, once again and with force, that “the city of Auch will always play solidarity”. It will undoubtedly have to be repeated …
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