A good part of the almost six thousand residents that inhabit the urbanizations of Plain of the Camel, in San Miguel de Abona, are against the City Council having approved the installation of a treatment plant in that neighborhood, fearful of its “bad smells”. Therefore, the mayor, Arturo Gonzalez, will meet today in the plenary hall of the consistory to try to convince them of the urgent need to act to end the dumping into the subsoil, “as the wells are clogged,” says the municipal councilor, who attributes the problem that arose “to the lack of maintenance of the purification in the urbanizations ”.
The neighbors, summoned through social networks, planned to demonstrate this afternoon, before the meeting. But the mayor insists, “it is urgent to take this measure”, because “the commitment is that the City Council assumes the costs that each urbanization should pay for purification and, in any case, we are talking about a portable and provisional treatment plant, which will go underground and that According to municipal technicians, it will not cause those bad odors they are talking about, as occurs with those installed in Amarilla Golf and the El Monte urbanization ”, explains Arturo González.
“The solution to treat those spills to the subsoil in Llano del Camello was to connect to the Amarilla Golf outfall, but the works to widen the highway and to prosecute them have prevented us from connecting the sewer system”, recalling that all those discharges will go in the future to the large regional treatment plant of Montaña Reverón, with state funding through Acuaes, but “this will not be finished, no matter how much they want to run, before four years, even if they have the money to do all the necessary connections in Arona Este and San Miguel ”, he remarked.
“Nobody likes to have a sewage treatment plant near their home, and neither does a garbage container, but everyone understands that they are necessary. The treatment plant is also removable and will go in the industrial zone of the urbanization, away from the houses ”, explained González.
The mayor recalls that according to the Tenerife Hydrological Plan, the Llano del Camello population center generates a flow of wastewater to 5,000 equivalent inhabitants, when European regulations already require that there be a purification network with 2,000 equivalent inhabitants.
Works in municipal warehouses, sports center and more urban park
The San Miguel de Abona City Council continues with the infrastructure improvement works in the Llano del Camello nucleus, recently awarding three works such as those relating to the municipal warehouses, the sports center and the expansion and improvement of the urban park.
The works of municipal warehouses 1, 2 and 3 are destined to the service of attention to citizens and training classrooms, with an investment of 427,000 euros and an execution of six months.
The mayor of San Miguel, Arturo González, emphasizes that “the town is growing by leaps and bounds, with the largest population concentrating in the lower area of the municipality and our goal is to improve municipal facilities to bring resources closer to citizens. The SAC of Las Chafiras is becoming small and now with the continuity of the works in the municipal warehouses, the Citizen Attention Service will be able to be transferred to offer a better service ”.
On the other hand, the works of the sports center located within the urban park have been resumed, after the breach of the contract of the winning company in 2019. This completion work, whose cost amounts to 102,552 euros, includes bleachers, lighting, fencing, pavement and court signage. In addition, the urban park will be expanded and improved, at a cost of 180,000 euros.
