As DIARIO DE AVISOS announced, the municipalities of Candelaria, Arafo and Güímar will not be able to discharge industrial water into the sea from tomorrow, when the authorization of the Vice-Ministry for the Fight against Climate Change expires, because the treatment plant that is being built in the Industrial Estate of a biological treatment. This was clarified by the engineer Fernando Losada in the extraordinary plenary session of Güímar, the last of the three that were held yesterday after those of Arafo (telematic) and Candelaria, in which the modification of the well-known stage plan was approved, agreed with the Insular Water Council to improve the quality of the water and order the transfer of the water and its sludge to the only industrial water treatment plant on the Island, in La Campana, municipality of El Rosario, or, as a last resort, to the Buenos Aires treatment plant. , in Santa Cruz, according to what the technician pointed out during a tense and complex plenary session.
In the Güimarera plenary session, the municipal secretary exposed “the lack of rigor” of the Insular Water Council and the mayor of the PP Francisco Hernández Armas came to propose that the cost of the vats be assumed by that administration or the company. that the Edari is building due to the delays in the work, which has triggered a new modification of the stage plan, which will lead the three city councils to have to send the discharges to another place, although the Losada also considered the possibility of “storing them in the Edaru (regional sewage treatment plant)”, understanding that “El Rosario has a capacity for 250 cubic meters per day, when we would need 360 cubic meters, 36 vats/day”.
After a long debate, the modification of the stage plan was approved with the votes in favor of the PSOE-CC, except for the socialist Beatriz Perdomo, who abstained, four PP councilors also voted in favor, while they voted against Nayra Caraballero (IU-SSP) and Francisco Hernández (PP) and Raquel Díaz (Cs) abstained.
In Candelaria it went ahead, with the votes of the PSOE and VxC, the abstention of the PP, Cs and CC, and the no of Sí se puede, which, like this group did in Güímar, surprised by asking to take the matter to the Prosecutor’s Office for alleged prevarication and environmental crime. Arafo, who will have the task of making the new agreement effective, also approved it (CC-PSOE); PP and IU abstained.
Escolástico Gil recalls that “I spent 700,000 euros on vats”
The mayor of Güímar, Gustavo Pérez, reported yesterday in plenary session that he had contacted the Insular Water Council and the El Rosario City Council to take the waste from the Polígono to the La Campana industrial treatment plant, an alternative that began to gestate on Friday, when the Vice-Ministry imposed a biological treatment on industrial waters -especially due to excess aluminum- which the Edari under construction cannot yet deal with. Although the El Rosario treatment plant does not have a physiochemical treatment, according to engineer Fernando Losada, it does have a biological treatment to pour this water into an absorbing well, which is the responsibility of the Insular Water Council, while the treatment plant, which cost 3.3 million euros, is owned by the municipality, recalled the mayor of El Rosario, Escolástico Gil. This, in addition, was denounced by the PSOE when he began to build it without the support of the Cabildo and “after spending 700,000 euros on vats, they denounced me,” he said.
Gil recalled that the treatment plant at the La Campana industrial estate only has a capacity of 250 m3/day and that it will be impossible to receive 36 tanks a day, when each one has a capacity of 10 cubic meters. The cost of vats until March 27, when there will be complete treatment in the Edari, would cost 270,000 euros.
