The water supply network of Agia Pelagia is being put up for auction

Posted today on Transparency and the Public Procurement Register the announcement for the tender of the project «Construction of the Internal Water Supply Network of Agia Pelagia, Kythira, total budget of €3,100,000.00 including VAT, financed by the Attica Region.

This is a project of great importance for the settlement of Agia Pelagia, which, due to its rapid urban development and high concentration of tourist and commercial businesses, requires new, modern infrastructure to meet not only current needs, but above all future ones.

This project has been pending for many years in the wider region, as the contract for the study was signed on March 15, 2002, between the contractor and the then mayor of Kythira. Artemios Kalligeros, while the studies were submitted to the Municipality in 2004-5.

Essentially, the studies remained inactive for almost 15 years, while in 2014 the then Municipal Authority submitted them for funding to EP.PER.A.A., but the proposal was submitted late and was therefore rejected.

It should also be noted that this project has been a concern for the local community for the last fifteen years, as it was a long-standing promise made by both municipal and regional authorities, but it was never implemented because many funding opportunities were missed (CSF, NSRF, Ministry of Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works, etc.).

The construction of four new reservoirs with a total capacity of 600 cubic meters, new pipelines tens of kilometers long, 177 smooth operation and isolation wells, 16 cleaning wells, 54 fire hydrants, and all necessary accompanying works. The construction of the new water supply network will follow the street lines of the approved plan for the settlement of Agia Pelagia.

This project is expected to fully cover the settlement's water supply needs until 2050, in combination with the two desalination units that will soon be put out to tender and all the other water supply projects in the wider area (new networks, new boreholes, filters, telemetry, automatic chlorination, automatic pH monitoring, etc.).