SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Sep. 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife, through the Tenerife Island Water Council, will allocate 232,253 euros to improve the continuity of the gravity collector called Arafo-Güímar-EDARU (Urban Wastewater Treatment Plant), consisting of the execution of an infrastructure of 300 meters in length to divert wastewater from Arafo to the EDARU Comarcal, a work that will begin on Nicaragua street in the municipality.
This action will also make it possible to incorporate part of the flows from the Fátima neighborhood.
“The situation of wastewater treatment in the Güímar Valley requires differentiated attention, on which, from the Cabildo, we are already putting the focus, both in the implementation of the EDARU and the solutions in the industrial estate” , the Councilor for Sustainable Development and Fight Against Climate Change of the Cabildo, Javier Rodríguez Medina, has indicated in a note.
The insular councilor visited Nicaragua Street, accompanied by the mayor of Arafo, Juan Ramón Martín and the first deputy mayor of Güimar Airam Puerta, in addition to CIATF staff, where the execution of a section of sewage collector through pipes will be carried out. PVC and diameter 400 millimeters.
The layout is carried out along Nicaragua street in a length of almost 300 meters and connects two wells of the existing network.
For this reason, among the actions that are being carried out by the CIATF and based on the document called ‘Diagnostics and Proposals for Sanitation Actions (DPS)’, the improvement of this channeling is included, which will allow “improving the existing infrastructures , guide the organization of their future development and propose and assess the necessary actions to comply with the regulations of each one of them”, pointed out Rodríguez Medina
The first deputy mayor of Güímar, Airam Puerta, pointed out that during the pandemic, specifically in April 2020, the councilor Javier Rodríguez himself moved to the Güímar mayor’s office and, together with the mayor of Arafo, agreed on the need to carry out this work to place this collector and treat the wastewater from both the Fátima and Arafo neighborhoods.
“Today we are checking how this action is already underway, that it is going at a good pace and that we want it to be finished as soon as possible,” he said.
The mayor of Arafo, Juan Ramón Martín, indicated that “this work will give continuity to the wastewater from the arafero neighborhood of El Carmen towards the regional treatment plant” and recalled that what is being experienced “is another rung on a ladder that began at beginning of this mandate to put all possible resources, municipal and from supra-municipal administrations, to solve a problem that the municipality has regarding certain deficiencies so that the highest possible percentage of sanitation works”.
He also added that “this step will soon be joined by the start of other works such as those in the Carmen neighborhood and on the beach in Lima.”
