SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 3 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife dedicates a budget of 12.5 million euros to building a network of sanitation pipes to channel the wastewater from the municipalities of Santa Úrsula, La Orotava, Puerto de la Cruz and Los Realejos towards the Valley regional treatment plant de La Orotava, located in Puerto de la Cruz, works that are included in the agreement signed between the Cabildo de Tenerife and ACUAES.
This work began last March and has an execution period of 21 months, and the president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martín, today visited the section corresponding to the Los Gómez La Florida collector, where he was accompanied by the Minister of Sustainable Development , Javier Rodriguez; the deputy delegate of the Government Jesús Javier Plata; the mayor of La Orotava, Francisco Linares, and several municipal councilors, as well as personnel from the Insular Water Council and ACUAES.
“One of the most serious environmental problems that exist on the island of Tenerife is the discharge of sewage into the sea,” said the president during the visit. For this reason, as he assured, “we have set out to reverse this situation and we are presenting an important work that has already begun with an investment of around 12 million euros and that will include just over 11 kilometers of collectors and pipes to collect wastewater in Santa Úrsula, La Orotava, Los Realejos and Puerto de la Cruz”.
The objective of these interventions, Pedro Martín pointed out, is “to deliver this water to what will be the new Valley treatment plant in which another 25 million euros will be invested and thus guarantee not only that we treat the water, but that afterwards can be used to distribute them in agriculture throughout the Valley of La Orotava and even that they can reach the Low Island”.
The Councilor for Sustainable Development of the Cabildo, Javier Rodríguez Medina, has pointed out that it is necessary to take into account that “we are in a highly polluted region because there is a high number of cesspools in the area”, and recalled that it is necessary to “comply with the directive on the proper treatment of wastewater and also put an end to the problem of contamination of the aquifer, which is caused by the existence of these wells, and for this, through this network we will be able to carry all the wastewater to the regional sewage treatment plant that we are also expanding to achieve this end”.
The Los Martillos, Los Cuartos, La Florida and San Jerónimo collectors are currently under construction, and the work consists of a total of about 10 sections of pipe distributed among the four municipalities, with a total length of almost 12 km.
The mayor of La Orotava, Francisco Linares, commented that these channeling works “are essential for the sustainable development of wastewater management” and pointed out that due to tradition and culture, the houses in the rural neighborhoods of the municipality are not usually connected to the sanitation networks, and this supposes, in many cases, “an extra investment for the families”, but he valued the start-up of the collectors that, he said, “will solve a problem with the discharge, since all the newly built houses they will connect to this network.
This project also includes two wastewater pumping stations (EBARES), one in Los Realejos in San Vicente, and another in Cuesta de la Villa and the improvement of four other existing EBARES in Puerto de la Cruz, specifically in Playa Jardín , El Faro, San Telmo and Martiánez.
