The industrial treatment plant Güímar Valley Polygon It has been in operation in a trial period since yesterday. With this, the announcement made by the president of the Cabildo, Peter Martinduring his visit to the facility on the 10th. The island government reports that the industrial wastewater from this complex was already connected to the Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant (Edari), “once the the biological treatment process, the penultimate step before the station works one hundred percent with all the purification guarantees”.
Pedro Martín alludes to the visit to this plant last week, together with the mayors of Güímar (Gustavo Pérez) and Arafo (Juan Ramón Martín) and the mayor of Candelaria (Mari Brito), to remember that during the visit “I made sure that In a short period of time, the treatment plant would be working,” said the president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín. “This Friday (yesterday) we have already connected the flow of water to biological treatment, with which the problem of wastewater from the estate has been resolved.”
The president of the Island Corporation also reports that “with the connection of this treatment, the caravan of tank trucks to La Campana and normality returns to the Edari of the other polygon”, located in El Rosario.
Martín considers that with the commissioning of the industrial treatment plant in a trial period “a service is safely offered to the polygon that had never been resolved, and that was causing environmental damage.” He thus alludes to the prolonged discharge of wastewater into the sea, which was carried out without authorization for a period of time, motivating million-dollar fines imposed by the European Union.
“As in any process that begins, we will spend a few days checking that everything works as established and with the necessary precautions,” clarified the president of the Cabildo.
In defense of the handling of this matter, Pedro Martín emphasized that “the Cabildo has worked very quickly to resolve a problem that affected a good number of companies in three municipalities, and finally, and before expected here is the solution”. Around 300 companies operate in the Valle de Güímar Industrial Estate, generating more than 3,000 jobs, according to the latest census.
CC manages to get the Cabildo to pay for the transfer of wastewater
The Cabildo will spend €1,061,000 in the payment of the transport of industrial wastewater from the Valle de Güímar Industrial Estate to the La Campana treatment plant, in El Rosario; from this point to the Buenos Aires treatment plant, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, while the rosariera facility was built, in 2021, and while the Los Roques treatment plant, in Fasnia, was executed.
CC assures that the plenary commission of Sustainability, Highways, Innovation and Culture unanimously approved a motion of the nationalists in that sense. The island councilor Blanca Pérez explains that “we have reached an agreement between all the groups so that the Cabildo takes charge of the cost”. Is about €160,000 to be distributed among the municipalities of Candelaria, Arafo and Güímar; €716,000 for the City Council of El Rosario and some €185,000 for the Municipality of Fasnia.
Blanca Pérez points out that “since the last mandate, the foundations were laid to solve the problems of discharges, tendering and awarding the treatment plants that are currently being executed.” In a statement issued yesterday, CC expressed the wish that the industrial treatment plant in the Güímar Valley “become operational as soon as possible”, as well as the Urban Wastewater Treatment Plant that is also being built in the Güímar Valley, “which will serve an important population of the Island”.
Last week, the spokesman for the Canarian Coalition (CC) in the Cabildo, Carlos Alonso, announced an amendment by his party to the Corporation’s Budget that would include “the expenses incurred by the City Council of El Rosario for the transfer of the vats to the treatment plant in Buenos Aires (Santa Cruz de Tenerife) during the time in which the La Campana wastewater treatment plant was built, amounting to around 700,000 euros”. The counselor took the opportunity to refresh that the PSOE and Ciudadanos, who make up the island government, “opposed the construction of the La Campana treatment plant, but it was possible to carry it out thanks to our opposition work.”
