The Cabildo de Tenerife, through the Insular Water Council, has connected this Thursday the flow of wastewater from the Güímar Industrial Park to the new pre-treatment infrastructure of the future EDARI (Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant) in the region, an urgent need since the water treatment of this polygon is immersed in a process of sanction by the European Union for not having the minimum established in the treatment of these waters.
“The connection that we have set up today is the first step in the construction of the polygon’s treatment plant, and although it is a pre-treatment, it greatly improves the water treatment processes, which were currently reduced to a filtered and sifted “, explained the insular councilor for Sustainable Development and the Fight against Climate Change, Javier Rodríguez Medina.
The counselor indicates in a note that the insular investment in the Güímar valley will exceed 20 million euros between the Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant (EDARI) and the Urban Wastewater Treatment Plant (EDARU) with the intention of ending the problem of discharges in the region .
“From the Cabildo of Tenerife we are investing as never before in water treatment, not only urban, but also industrial. We have signed with the State the largest agreement in the history of the Cabildo, and these are no longer political commitments, they are realities “, has affected.
In his opinion, “this diversion to the existing filtering to start operating with the pre-treatment already completed, will generate a double benefit, on the one hand, as has been stated, it will notably improve the treatment received by industrial waters, and on the other , to free up the space that filtering currently occupies to continue advancing in the construction of the rest of the EDARI facilities “.
Rodríguez points out that this infrastructure represents an investment of 6 million euros and “will completely change” the treatment of the waters of this region.
Even so, he exposes, “we want to achieve excellence, that is why the work will continue to advance until we achieve the objective that we all pursue, to put an end to the spillage problem that we have been suffering from for decades.”
Operating system in 2022
Javier Rodríguez also recalls that Tenerife is one of the regions of Europe with the highest number of sanctions“That is why this government group is committed to putting an end to this situation.”
The pretreatment is already fully operational and the forecast is that by mid-2022 it may be working at full capacity with this treatment plant.
The counselor has also emphasized that they are working “smoothly and efficiently” in the formalization of an agreement with the representatives of the municipalities of the Güímar Valley (Arafo, Candelaria and Güímar).
“The Insular Water Council will be the administration that assumes the management and exploitation of this infrastructure, but since it is a municipal responsibility, we need a regulatory framework, and I hope that in the coming months we can already have an agreement on the text of the agreement” , it is finished.
