La Chira Waste Water Treatment Plant

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Prospective

The La Chira Waste Water Treatment plant was a a 25-year BOT contract to supply treated water to Lima. The concessionaire was to build the necessary infrastructure to provide the national drinking water and sewer system Servicio de Agua Potable y Alcantarillado (Sedapal) with treatment services of roughly 25% of the wastewater of the Peruvian capital, covering 2.5 million people. The plant was to have an average capacity of 6.3 cubic metres a second and a maximum level of 11.3 metres a second. This was to help Peru meet its Milenium Goals of 100% treated wastewater by 2015. In November 2010 ProInversion, Peru's federal investment promotion agency awarded a 25-year PPP concession to ACCIONA Agua and the Peruvian company Graña Montero. Grana y Montero and Acciona Agua were also the EPC contractors of the project. The winning consortium beat rival groups including ACS Servicios, Comunicaciones y Energía (Spain); Consorcio Odebrecht - Foz (Brazil) and Consorcio PTAR La Chira, comprising Andrade Gutiérrez (Brazil) and Abengoa (Peru). The total project cost was The PEN280m ($104.52m. Financing comprised PEN30m ($US11.2m) equity and PEN250m ($US93.32m) 23-year term loan arranged by BBVA. Loan agreement was signed on 2 Feb 2012. Delmar & Ugarte was the legal adviser to borrower. BBVA was the financial adviser to borrower. The plant was expected to be operational in March 2014.

Water and sewerage

World Bank Group

Project

Commercial, Water Supply and Storage, Waste Processing and Treatment, Government