The completion of the process of Evaluation of Participation Documents – Technical Offer & Financial Offer and the nomination of a Temporary Contractor for the project “Transportation and distribution of water from Nestos river in the plain of Xanthi for irrigation purposes”, which will be implemented as a PPP project, included in the Water 2.0 program.announced the Minister of Rural Development and Food, Kostas Tsiaras, the Deputy Minister of National Economy and Finance, Nikos Papathanasis, the Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Food, Dionysios Stamenitis and the General Secretary of Union Resources and Infrastructure of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food, Dimitris Papagiannidis.

Temporary Contractor for the project, budget of €169,500,000 (plus VAT) in net present value terms with parallel financing of €51,000,000 from the Recovery and Resilience Fund, i.e. a total of €220,500,000, GEK TERNA SA was selected.

The project in question is the second PPP project in a row and the largest of the Water 2.0 program, for which the very important process of appointing a Temporary Contractor is completed, while the corresponding process is expected to be completed for the remaining three irrigation projects of the Water 2.0 program on next days. The project includes the preparation of all the required studies, as well as the construction, financing, maintenance and operation of water abstraction projects from the Nestos River (Toxoton Dam) and its disposal in the eastern plain of Xanthi, which presents the more serious flooding problems in Greeceto serve the irrigation needs of approximately 56 thousand acres.

Project Technical Characteristics

Its duration Partnership Agreement is twenty-five years including the construction time of the project. In summary, the scope of the Partnership Agreement concerns the implementation of the following infrastructures:

(1) Of the main water transfer projects of the eastern plain of Xanthi (main projects), which include:

  • Improvement interventions and upgrades of Toxoton water abstraction projects
  • Repair of the lining of the existing eastern feeder canal from its head (downstream of Toxoton water intake works)
  • New transmission canal of trapezoidal cross-section, variable flow, including the accompanying technical works of its operation
  • Two (2) pumping stations and two (2) reforming tanks

(2) Of water transport and distribution projects of area A2 of the eastern plain of Xanthi in the five rural areas, Myrodato-Abdira-Veloni-Mandra-Pezoula, which include:

  • Central water transport and distribution pipelines, five (5) pumping stations and seven (7) reforming tanks
  • Irrigation networks of Myrodatos-Avdira-Veloni-Mandra-Pezoulas

(3) The installation of smart irrigation systems (telemetry – remote control systems, electronic irrigation monitoring devices with wireless communication, weather stations, quality characteristic measurement systems, etc.).

The first part of the project concerns the implementation of the main water transfer projects of the eastern plain of Xanthi (head projects) and will be delivered complete and operational in 18 months, while the entire project will be completed in 36 months from the signing of the Partnership Agreement.

With all the above interventions of the competence of the General Secretariat of Union Resources and Infrastructure of the HYPAAT, in collaboration with the PPP Unit of the Ministry of National Economy and Finance, an improvement in the competitiveness of the agricultural sector and mitigation of the effects of climate change is achieved.