Santa Bàrbara expropriates land to optimize the WWTP and the high-level collectors

The Santa Bàrbara City Council has opened the expropriation proceedings for the land required for the works to optimize the municipality’s sanitation system, which includes the WWTP (Waste Water Treatment Plant) and the high-level collectors. The municipal Plenary definitively approved the project on November 3, 2026, and the agreement was published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Tarragona on November 11, 2026 (CVE 2026-10642, pp. 1-2), along with the list of 21 affected properties.

According to the announcement signed by the acting secretary, Isabel Verge Caballé, the approval of the project implies the declaration of public utility and the necessity of occupying the land. The proceedings are processed under number 4313840003-2026-0003043 and affect the municipal district of Santa Bàrbara.

Twenty-one affected properties in three polygons

The list of affected rights and assets distinguishes three types of impact for each plot: expropriation, easement, and temporary occupation, all measured in square meters. The properties are distributed among polygons 9, 10, 92048, and 90019, with a clear predominance of polygon 9, which concentrates thirteen of the twenty-one properties.

There are fourteen private owners, and the rest correspond to public administrations:

• Santa Bàrbara City Council, owner of six properties (nos. 1, 5, 9, 17, 19, and 21).
• Generalitat de Catalunya, owner of property no. 6 (polygon 10, plot 9004).
• Romeu Immobles Financial, SL, with two properties (nos. 2 and 3).
• Margarita Centelles Cid, with two properties (nos. 7 and 8).
• Mohammed Maasri (property 4), M. Pilar Franco Segura (10), Fco. Benduel Pla Franco (11), Airen Balagué Cuadrad (12), M. Gloria Rodríguez Clua (13), M. Luisa García Sánchez (14), DELLA AL RIU, SLU (15), Josefa Ferré Queral (16), Maria Alucha Lletí (18), and Juan Fco. Caballé Monllau (20).

The property with the highest expropriation area is number 16, belonging to Josefa Ferré Queral (polygon 9, plot 46), with 17,887.39904 square meters. This is followed by property 14, belonging to M. Luisa García Sánchez (1,612.334499 m²), and 13, belonging to M. Gloria Rodríguez Clua (1,104.580325 m²).

Twenty business days to submit objections

The announcement opens a public information period of twenty business days. During this period, interested parties may provide in writing the data necessary to rectify possible errors in the published list and formulate any objections they deem appropriate.

The publication of the list of owners and affected assets is, according to the municipal text, the direct consequence of the declaration of public utility agreed upon by the Plenary, which is the preliminary step to the compulsory occupation of the land.

A project for the municipal sanitation system

The purpose of the file is the “Construction project for the optimization of the Santa Bàrbara system” (WWTP and high-level collectors in the municipality of Santa Bàrbara), definitively approved in the plenary session of November 3, 2026. The action therefore encompasses both the treatment plant and the pipelines that carry the wastewater.

The municipal agreement does not specify any construction schedule or any economic valuation of the expropriations in the announcement; the published procedure is limited to the definitive approval of the project, the declaration of public utility, and the opening of the public information period.

For the residents of Santa Bàrbara, the news has a double reading: on one hand, it consolidates a pending investment in the municipality’s water cycle; on the other, fourteen private owners see their plots affected and now have twenty business days to review the assigned areas and defend their interests before the expropriation process moves forward.

Fuente: Official Gazette of the Province of Tarragona, no. of 11-11-2026, section I, pp. 1-2 (official reference: CVE 2026-10642).