The investment that public administrations make in the southwest of the Island amounts to 27 million euros to complete the purification system in the region made up of Guía de Isora and Santiago del Teide. The West treatment plant, in execution, requires an expenditure of 15.6 million euros which, added to the costs of the rest of the actions necessary to complete this system, reach 27 million euros.
At the Las Charquetas Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP), it is necessary to incorporate other actions that will allow the waters from the different coastal towns to be unified and promoted to the treatment plant. These include the dismantling and replacement of the Varadero pumping station, the improvement of the collectors, the construction of two new pumping stations –one for the region and the other for Alcalá– and the installation of a pumping and treatment station in Playa de San Juan, as well as other works in the neighboring municipality of Santiago del Teide.
The mayor of Isorana, Josefa Mesa, points out that The West treatment plant project (Las Charquetas) «is one of the most important projects 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». Mesa Mora highlighted the benefit that the reuse of water will bring to agriculture: «Its start-up will close the cycle of wastewater use, directing the resulting product to our farmers. We are a fairly agricultural municipality and we know the importance that this action will also have for the sector».
This infrastructure, with the capacity to respond to a population of up to 109,000 equivalent inhabitants and with a maximum flow of 10,325 cubic meters per day, will be responsible for purifying the wastewater from the different population centers that make up the municipalities of Guía de Isora and Santiago of Teide.
Both Josefa Mesa and her counterpart from Santiago del Teide, Emilio Navarro, participated in the recent visit to the Las Charquetas treatment plant. In it, the president of the Cabildo, Peter Martinindicated that “these investments will be an undoubted improvement in water treatment on the Island, which will place Tenerife at levels of wastewater treatment of close to 90%”.
