San Miguel de Abona has recently become a big dump, as denounced by the government group itself, which has transferred a communication to the neighbors so that they refrain from leaving belongings, furniture and remains of construction materials near the containers or in vacant lots. Meanwhile, the PSOE denounces the local government itself for not practicing by example, by depositing equipment inside the work of the covered pool that has been half built for 15 years.
Julián Jesús Martín, Councilor for Municipal Services, points out that “we have already imposed some fine, but we still have a lot of belongings in areas such as Guargacho, Chafiras or Llano del Camello, as if everyone was given in recent months for doing works in their houses and throwing the remains into the street”, regrets the mayor, who acknowledges that “we have even requested the possibility of installing some surveillance cameras to be able to fine the irresponsible, because the neighbors collaborate by sending us photos and others, but they do not they say who has left that rubbish”.
San Miguel de Abona is waiting to receive one of the six clean points that the Cabildo is going to install soon, but, meanwhile, Martín recalls that “this City Council works, every day, for a clean municipality, which has to be a job everyone, so we ask for collaboration to control the uncivil behavior of some people who come to overwhelm municipal public services.
“A bad practice -he points out- that is not logical, taking into account that there is a nearby island clean point, in Malpaso, in Arona, where we can deposit the materials that we already consider useless completely free of charge.”
The mayor also recalls that the hours for depositing belongings in San Miguel de Abona are Monday through Tuesday and Thursday through Friday nights, but acknowledges that “sometimes there are so many that our staff cannot cope, because they do not call before to say that they have been deposited”, emphasizing, in addition, that “many of these discharges we have to classify later, since there are many that come in mixed bags”, without forgetting “the large amount of cardboard that is collected from the Polígono de Las Chafiras”, for which the City Council has contacted the Martínez Cano company to improve the collection of paper and cardboard.
Criticism of the PSOE
The government group thus came forward after the public complaint made by the PSOE at the beginning of the month, where it was made known that two municipal plots located in Llano del Camello, just in front of the neighborhood park, which is still closed, and another in the Las Andoriñas industrial estate is being used as a landfill.
According to the PSOE, the local government states that they have found several landfills on public roads, but “what they do not say is that they used the municipal swimming pool facilities as a landfill.” “On May 8 we were able to check how the municipal swimming pool was, a facility that they have now gone to clean given the commotion caused by our public complaint,” said the general secretary of the PSOE of San Miguel, and mayor, José Carlos Rodríguez.
Within the facilities of the municipal swimming pool, which have been half-built for more than 15 years, there were discarded refrigerators, remains of works, municipal furniture, children’s games removed from public parks, props from the Culture galas, banners, a Christmas tree… Even a car engine. In this sense, the socialist councilor states that “after our complaint they have begun to clean up years of nonsense.”
