300 TONNES of moist wipes had been flushed down Benidorm bathrooms final yr inflicting €400,000 of repairs to pumping and remedy crops.
The issue is changing into more and more critical with wipes accounting for 90% of solids intercepted in native wastewater.
A breakdown just a few months in the past on the Severo Ochoa pumping station triggered workers to spend days unblocking pipes stuffed with hundreds of hygienic wipes.
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Benidorm Metropolis Council and water firm Hidraqua have now joined forces in a marketing campaign to get folks to vary their wipe disposal habits.
Town’s water cycle councillor, Jose Ramon Gonzalez, mentioned: “Dumping wipes down bathrooms causes important issues and breakdowns within the sewerage community with a excessive environmental and financial value.”
The marketing campaign known as ‘Cease wipes from being information’ and likewise hopes to hammer residence the message to vacationers with billboards and show screens carrying the slogan.
Hidraqua’s regional supervisor, Ciriaco Clemente, mentioned: “Therapy crops do their job in catching wipes throughout dry climate, however at a excessive value.”
“Sadly throughout heavy rain, our safety system won’t cope, with the wipes ending up being pumped onto the coast and into the ocean,” he added.
“One of the simplest ways to unravel the issue is citizen consciousness and collaboration in one thing that impacts us all, environmentally and economically,” Clemente concluded.
