The agreement between Council of Tenerife and the state trading company Aguas de las Cuencas de España (Acuaes) is already awarded 80% of its budget, having been awarded 140 million euros in four of the five major works that make up the agreement.
This has been indicated by the president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Peter Martinduring the visit made with the general director of Acuaes, Rosa Cobo, to the Granadilla treatment plant.
Pedro Martín referred to the works of this agreement indicating that “These investments will represent an undoubted improvement in water treatment on the island, that will place Tenerife at levels of wastewater treatment of close to 90% and take a significant qualitative and quantitative leap to avoid the sanctions that the Government of Spain is receiving, precisely, in the case of Tenerife, for the non-treatment adequate wastewater.
The president pointed out in Granadilla that “the development of this purification station will allow a treatment of purified water of about 14,000 cubic meters, with the intention, as we are doing in each work of the Island Council, that these purified waters can be reused for agriculture ” .
Martin also spoke of other sanitation and purification projects that are being carried out in other places on the island, as is the case of the improvement of purification in the Güímar Valley or in Arona-Adeje. “In these four years we will completely change the model of wastewater management that is obsolete and harmful to the island, and for this reason we have opted for a significant investment, because we believe that it is time to solve the discharge problems that threaten the island for more than forty years,” he said.
The monitoring committee of the agreement between the Cabildo de Tenerife and Acuaes was held this morning at the Insular Council of Aguas de Tenerife, with the presence of the general director of Acuaes, Rosa Cobo, and the insular councilor for Sustainable Development and Fight Against Climate Change Javier Rodríguez, and in it the situation of the sanitation and purification actions that are being carried out on the island thanks to the collaboration agreement between both institutions and that has an investment of 170 million euros has been reviewed , of which the island corporation contributes half, 85 million.
The general director of Acuaes, Rosa Cobo, referred to the follow-up meeting held today and pointed out that “The monitoring commission is developing very smoothly. We meet twice a year, in addition to regular meetings with Acuaes staff on the island” and remarked that “the island councilor for Sustainable Development, Javier Rodríguez, and the CIATF manager, Javier Davara, are up to date with the development of the works and the possible problems and deficiencies that arise. They are informed first hand. The relationship is fluid and in real time.”
During the visit to Granadilla de Abona, its mayor, José Domingo Regalado, pointed out that the construction of the sewage treatment plant in the municipality is the “priority” work for the municipal government. “What is necessary now is that the established deadlines are met and that we can count on this infrastructure as soon as possible, which is a vital action in environmental matters that the municipality demands. When it comes into operation it will be a great day for Granadilla de Abona”, adds the local president.
In Guía de Isora, the mayor Josefa Mesa pointed out that the West treatment plant project is “one of the most important that not only Guía de Isora has, but also the island of Tenerife to put an end to the problems of sanitation and water purification , especially in the west of this island”, and highlighted how “its start-up will close the cycle of wastewater use directing the resulting product to our farmers because we know the importance it has in Guía de Isora, as a municipality quite agricultural.
Lastly, the mayor of Santiago del Teide, Emilio Navarro, stressed that the progress of these works “is of vital importance to avoid spills into the sea and solve the environmental problems we had in this area. We are happy, happy, with this execution of work, which is also going at a good pace. And simply that: congratulate us all for the work that is being carried out and that this region continues to advance as we all wish”.
The works, which will be co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund ERDF 2014-2020, within the Pluriregional Operational Program of Spain (POPE), also promote the regeneration of treated wastewater to enable its reuse as agricultural irrigation.
OTHER PERFORMANCES.
Apart from the Acuaes agreement, actions have been carried out or are being carried out on the island by the Cabildo de Tenerife and the Ciatf, as is the case of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Plant (EDARU) and the Wastewater Treatment Plant Industrial (WWTP) of Valle de Güímar, with an investment of 12.7 and 6.9 million euros, respectively; the Fasnia treatment plant, with 1.1 million, the industrial wastewater treatment plant of La Campana (El Rosario), with 1.5 million; the deodorization of the ETBAR of Playa de las Américas, with 1.5 million; the Buenos Aires Edaru in SC for an amount of around €33M and the Granadilla Industrial Estate EDARI for an amount of €1.8M and in purification actions in Isla Baja.
