The mayor of Santiago del Teide, Emilio Navarro, signed the restatement act with which the formal start of the works corresponding to the improvement of the electrical installations of the Wastewater Pumping Station (EBAR), located in Los Gigantes. This is an action to which the Santiago City Council allocates an investment of 28,115 euros.
With an estimated execution period of one and a half months (75 days), the municipal government maintains that this intervention represents a notable improvement for Santiago del Teide in terms of its sanitation and wastewater treatment infrastructures.
It should be noted that this intervention is integrated into the framework of municipal powers with which various actions have been developed in the area. This is the case of the intervention and supply of new pumping equipment, the urbanization works that are contemplated and that will include the pipeline networks for energy, telecommunications and public lighting, as well as the replacement of the sewage collectors, among other measures. included in the project.
Emilio Navarro, mayor of Santiago del Teide, is aware that sanitation “is one of the most complex problems we are facing”. At the end of the last term, the submarine emissary was the axis of this problem. Until then, the Santiago Consistory used more than 300,000 euros for its repair and pumping stations. Currently, the problem is in the process of being solved. Precisely an energy problem produced the last episode of pollution.
During the last mandate, the expenditure made by the City Council in the provision and improvement of the municipal sanitation network and in the adaptation and repair of outfalls and pumping stations was close to 6.3 million euros.
The state mercantile company Aguas de las Cuencas de España (Acuaes), of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, awarded at the end of June and for 8,357,666 euros, the execution of the works and start-up of the pumping and Coastal impulses of the West Tenerife Sanitation System, with a 27-month execution period, including six trial months. This system includes the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) and the wastewater treatment and pumping station (Etbar), with an investment of 27 million euros.
The development of these actions will be fundamental not only for Guía de Isora, but also for Santiago del Teide. Is about works that must contribute in an essential way to notably improve sanitation conditions in the Southwest region and thereby prevent episodes of contamination.
