The 12-year contract was awarded to Suez’s subsidiary Lyonnaise des Eaux by the Syndicat Mixte pour la Gestion du Service des Eaux de Versailles et Saint- Cloud (SMGSEVESC, Versailles and Saint-Cloud joint service for water management).
The deal provides for renewed governance, improved water quality and taste, and intelligent technologies to support network performance.
Plans include the introduction of new rules for management of the water service in order to strengthen the local authority’s control over water supply service.
A new company, Société des Eaux de l’Ouest Parisien, will be specially established for the contract by January 2015.
The water quality and taste will be improved by the introduction of a collective decarbonation solution and a new chlorination system.
Lyonnaise des Eaux has developed Aqua 360, a water supply management centre which offers SMGSEVESC with an overview of the large water cycle on its territory.
Aqua 360, which is based on the Aquadvanced technology developed by Suez, offers real-time monitoring of plant operations and the distribution network, as well as the indicators related with the user relationship.
Plans also include the installation of 500 leak sensors in the distribution network for continuous monitoring of vulnerable networks.
The data transmitted by the sensors will be analysed in real time via the Aqua 360 management centre.
Lyonnaise des Eaux supplies drinking water to 12 million residents and provides wastewater treatment for over 9. 4 million people in France.
Image: Suez Environnement secured a €250m public drinking water supply outsourcing contract for 22 municipalities in Versailles. Photo: Courtesy of domdeen/FreeDigitalPhotos.net.
