📋 Tender Overview
Yesterday, the contract for the implementation of the project "Supply, installation and commissioning of automation and telemetry systems for leakage control and water and energy saving of TOEB Nigritas irrigation network", with a budget of 6.053 million euros, was signed.
The construction of the project will last 12 months from the signing of the contract, while the financing is carried out by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and National Resources.
According to the contract, the project concerns the supply, installation and operation of new automation systems, as well as modern equipment for the remote control - remote control of water and energy saving through the control of leaks in the entire existing irrigation network of TOEB Nigritas, an area of ??66,554 acres.
In particular, it concerns the following:
An irrigation network automation, remote control - remote control system consisting of five (5) Local Irrigation Stations and 61 Pipeline Supply Metering Points to monitor all critical parameters in the irrigation network infrastructure, a Central Control Station, procurement, installation and commissioning two (2) Telemetric Agro-meteorological Network Stations and a Portable Control Station.
Supply, installation and commissioning of 1,000 electric Waterspouts, as well as a cathodic protection system on the outlet pipes of the pumping stations for anti-corrosion protection of the network.
With the completion of the procurement, the reduction of water consumption, at least by 30%, the reduction of energy consumption, the optimization of plant production and the increase of revenues of TOEB Nigritas will be achieved.
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, with a plan and method, implements a number of projects throughout Greece aimed at the rational management of water resources, essentially contributing to the improvement of the efficiency of the primary sector.
