The wastewater from the Güímar industrial estate, on the east coast of Tenerife, has already been connected to the corresponding treatment plant after starting the biological treatment process, the penultimate step before the station works 100% with all the guarantees of depuration.
A mayor and three former mayors in Tenerife, prosecuted for their inaction in the face of constant toxic discharges in the Valle de Güímar industrial estate
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The president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín, recalled this Friday that on the 10th he visited the plant with the mayors of Güímar, Arafo and Candelaria and assured then that in a short period of time the treatment plant would be working. “This Friday we have already connected the flow of water to the biological treatment, with which the problem of the industrial estate’s wastewater has been resolved and with the connection of this treatment the caravan of tanker trucks to La Campana is interrupted and normality returns to the EDARI of the other estate”, he stated.
In this way, the polygon is offered “safely” a service that had never been resolved and that was causing environmental damage, says the president, adding that “as with any process that begins, we will spend a few days checking that everything works as planned. established and with the necessary precautions.
Pedro Martín has stressed that the Cabildo has worked “with all speed” to solve a problem that affected “a good number of companies in three municipalities and finally, and sooner than expected, here is the solution”.
It should be remembered that the current mayor of Candelaria, Mari Brito (PSOE), and the former local councillors, Gumersindo García (former mayor of Candelaria, PSOE), Carmen Luisa Castro (former mayor of Güímar, PP) and José Juan Lemes (former mayor of Arafo, for PP and then by CC) they will be prosecuted for the commission of alleged continued crimes against the environment and prevarication in the management of wastewater discharges in this polygon. According to the order of Court number 1 of Güímar, the aforementioned mayors, “who were owners of the infrastructures of the estate, consciously and voluntarily, without apparent justification, omitted since July 2013 the administrative actions to which they were imperatively obliged in the control and legalization of wastewater discharges into the marine environment”.
