SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 22 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife and the Santa Cruz City Council have signed an agreement through which the insular Institution will finance the works to improve the drainage pipeline located under Anatolio Fuentes street, which discharge into the Hondura dock, known as La Cascada, works to be carried out by the City Council.
The budget for said agreement exceeds one million euros, of which the Cabildo will contribute 865,689 euros, which is 80% of the total, and the City Council will contribute 216,422 euros.
The agreement was signed between the president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín, and the first deputy mayor and councilor for the area of Community Welfare and Public Services and Health, Guillermo Díaz Guerra, accompanied by the Minister of Sustainable Development and Fight against Climate Change, Javier Rodríguez Medina.
“With the signing of this document we are launching a priority work that will solve a historical problem for the city of Santa Cruz,” said the president of the Cabildo, who also noted that this investment “corroborates that the island Corporation focuses on the needs of citizens, solving complicated situations of many years, in this case notably improving the layout of the water conduction between the unification well of the discharges corresponding to the head reliefs of the Wastewater Treatment Plant, the waters themselves treated of the WWTP and the drains from BALTEN and the point of discharge into the sea “.
This agreement joins another, also approved this Wednesday in the plenary session of the city to carry out the canalization works of the El Cercado ravine, in the nucleus of El Regente, in San Andrés and thus end the problems suffered by residents and neighbors in the area when there is rains. To carry out this action, which will be carried out through the Insular Water Council of Tenerife (Ciatf) and the Consistory, a budget of 1,543,505.32 euros has been foreseen.
For his part, Guillermo Díaz Guerra pointed out that both actions “have been necessary for years, and from the first moment there has been fluidity in the negotiation and predisposition on both sides.” The mayor of the capital added that it is not “the time to look at political colors, but rather the needs and demands of the citizens.”
“From the Insular Water Council and from the area of Sustainable Development and Fight against Climate Change of the Cabildo, they work to improve the serious problems that the island of Tenerife has related to spills and its facilities, many of which are find them obsolete and in need of rehabilitation, as is the case of this conduction located in the city of Santa Cruz “, indicated Javier Rodríguez Medina, who also pointed out that the signing of this agreement” opens a new possibility to rehabilitate in 11 months this infrastructure that will solve the problem of the spillage of La Cascada “.
