The mayors of the municipalities of the Guima Valleyr and its counterpart from The rosary yesterday ratified the agreement between the four town councils to evacuate part of the wastewater discharged by the Valle de Güímar Industrial Estate to the La Campana treatment plant, as it is the first of its kind built in the Canary Islands and, therefore, the only one authorized to treat these effluents. This operation has been applied since last Friday and will be in force until the 28th, although the authorization to continue dumping into the sea from the Southeast industrial area will be delivered today, after its signature by the Deputy Minister for the Fight against Climate Change and Transition Ecological of the Canarian Government, miguel angel perez.
Councilors Escolástico Gil (El Rosario), María Concepción Brito (Candelaria), Gustavo Pérez (Güímar) and Juan Ramón Martín (Arafo) held a meeting at the Rosario Town Hall, with the presence of the first deputy mayor of El Rosario, Sara Hair. In said meeting, they highlighted the high degree of coordination and understanding between the four municipalities to solve the discharges from the Valle de Güímar Industrial Park while its corresponding treatment plant is put into operation, which suffers from delays in its execution. A work for which the Cabildo de Tenerife is responsible through the Insular Water Council (Ciatf).
Yesterday, Gil missed that this body had contacted the City Council of El Rosario to coordinate this solution, as established in the agreement. “The Cabildo government abandoned El Rosario and now the same thing has happened again,” he censured. In this context, he stressed that “the help we provide to these municipalities is a moral victory over those who denounced me for building the La Campana treatment plant, which now becomes the solution for the Güímar Valley.” He confirmed that “there is capacity to collect these waters and it never crossed my mind to deny me. The sea belongs to everyone and what affects the waters in Candelaria, Güímar or Arafo ends up affecting El Rosario”.
“The help we provide to these municipalities is a moral victory over those who denounced me for building the La Campana treatment plant”
For their part, the mayors of the municipalities of the Güímar Valley transferred their gratitude to the Consistory of El Rosario for its willingness “from the first moment”. In this sense, the mayor of Candelaria and president of the Canarian Federation of Municipalities (Fecam), María Concepción Brito, thanked such attitude and highlighted “the unity of municipalism that, in emergency situations like this, is capable of providing a quick solution and effective.”
The mayor of Güímar, Gustavo Pérez, defended that “the consequences of the delay in the construction of the sewage treatment plant exceeds the municipalities, from the city councils we are clear that this should be above conflicts between administrations and parties.” Juan Ramón Martín stated, in his capacity as Alderman of Arafo, that “municipalism has triumphed on this issue to go hand in hand in something that could be a conflict, but has become a symbol of union.”
The transport of wastewater from the Güímar Valley to La Campana is a requirement of the Vice-Ministry of Ecological Transition of the Government of the Canary Islands, which requires reducing the pollution load of the Polígono del Sureste in the last extension of the authorization for discharges into the sea . Therefore, it is necessary to transport up to 240 cubic meters of wastewater per day to the treatment plant of the San Isidro-El Chorrillo Industrial Estate, commonly known as La Campana. The measure will be in force until the 28th, the date on which the Tenerife Island Water Council must activate the region’s industrial treatment plant for testing.
This morning, the president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martín, will visit these facilities, accompanied by the three mayors of the Güímar Valley and the island councilor for Sustainable Development and the Fight against Climate Change, Javier Rodríguez Medina.
CC amends the budget of the Cabildo
CC announces that it will present an amendment to the budgets of the Cabildo so that the Insular Corporation pays the costs of transferring the discharges from the Güímar Valley to La Campana, which amount to about 160,000 euros and are borne by the municipalities of Candelaria, Arafo and Güímar . Carlos Alonso, nationalist spokesman, points out that “the cost of the tanks that transport the waste is attributable to the Cabildo due to the delay that occurs in the commissioning of the industrial treatment plant.” In the amendment they will include the 700,000 euros corresponding to the “expenditure that the City Council of El Rosario had for the transfer of the vats to the treatment plant of Buenos Aires, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, during the time in which the Edari de La Campana was built “. CC recalls that the PSOE and Ciudadanos opposed the construction of the El Rosario treatment plant, “but it was possible to carry it out thanks to our opposition work.” Alonso establishes that both industrial treatment plants “were also planned and tendered since the previous mandate, but they have not yet come into operation
