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Franchisee
of integrated water service management in the Area of Tuscany n.6
Integrated water service:
WATER
SUPPLY
SEWERAGE
PURIFICATION
DESALINATION
Company Quality certification UNI EN ISO
9001 n.3167/II - 3167/I
population: 379 thousand,
which in summer reaches peaks estimated in excess of 600 thousand.
Surface: 7.144 kmq
Municipalities: 56
Province: 2
Production of water for
drinking purposes50.000.000 mc/YEAR
purification plants with
a production of water for drinking purposes of 13,5 millions Litres/day
Ato 6- The Ombrone and its franchisee: Acquedotto del Fiora spa
Ato 6 is the largest Area of Tuscany. It covers some 7,144 km2 and
has a resident population of some 379 thousand which in summer reaches
peaks estimated in excess of 600 thousand. The Area covers the whole
province of Grosseto and almost the whole province of Siena for a
total of 56 municipalities. The main municipalities are the provincial
capitals, Grosseto and Siena.
The Area Plan provides for an investment programme worth some 470
million Euros in 25 years and an average first-year weighted tariff
of 0.99 Euro. This will be increased (decided by Ato act N° 6)
by 0.03 Euro retroactive to January 1 2002.
The planned yearly water supply of Ato 6 is 60 million cubic metres
to some 200 thousand consumers.
The sole franchisee of Ato 6 since January 1 2002 is Acquedotto del
Fiora, a joint stock company owned 60% by a public partner (all the
municipalities of the Area) and 40% by a private partner.
Since the 50s, Acquedotto del Fiora has been the provider of
water captation, adduction and distribution mostly to the province
of Grosseto and northern Lazio. Now entrusted with the
gestione del Sii as provided for in the so-called Galli law,
the previous itemized expenditure regimes have been topped as have
those of the previous licensees: Intesa spa (Siena), Cigaf spa (Sinalunga)
and Gea spa (Grosseto).
Acquedotto del Fiora Spa is the owner and manager of the desalination
plant of Isola del Giglio (Grosseto)and other purification plants
with a production of water for drinking purposes of 13,5 million litres/day,which
will soon enable the island to be completely self-supporting in terms
of fresh water.
In 2002, the franchisee had a turnover in excess of 30 million Euros.
At october 2003, it employed a staff of 285.
Acquedotto del Fiora spa as obtaining the UNI EN ISO 9001 (Company
Quality) Certification.
Filtering Units
Acquedotto del Fiora S.p.A. carries out the design, engineering,
manufacturing, installation, operation and maintenance of:
- Media and multi-media filtration units for wells and surface water
- Activated carbon filtering units
- Iron and Manganese removal units
- Sulphide removal units
- Solvents, pesticides and micro-pollutants removal plants
- Sewage water reclamation filtering units
Sea water desalination
Acquedotto del Fiora S.p.A has an internal division dedicated exclusively
for the sea-water desalination with the reverse osmosis technology.
Reverse osmosis unit for drinking water has energy recovery system.
The desalinated water is mainly utilized for potable purpose, but,
at times, also for industrial use.
The increasing necessity of water, especially in tourist areas,
has given this product a large development.
Waste Water Stations
Acquedotto del Fiora S.p.A. carries out the design, engineering,
manufacturing, installation, operation and maintenance of:
- Physical-chemical and biological stations for waste water treatment
industries.
- Biogas units.
- Used water recovering and reusing systems.
- Biological plants for waste water coming from towns, communities,
tourist villages and hotels.Pumping Stations
Acquedotto del Fiora S.p.A. carries out the design, engineering,
manufacturing, installation, operation and maintenance of raising
station for:
- Municipal water system supply
- Municipal and industrial waste water
- Sewages
- Large draining systems
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