The Cabildo de Tenerife urges the City Council of Icod de los Vinos to present a sanitation project that helps prevent discharges into the Cueva del Viento, the main underground heritage of the Island, given that the main sources of contamination they are concentrated between the urban area of Los Piquetes and Camino Marengo.
This was stated on Friday at the insular plenary session by the Councilor for Museums, president of the Autonomous Organism for Museums and Centers, Concepción Rivero. She did so as a result of the question from the Si Podemos Canarias councilor David Carballo about whether the Cabildo has any solution planned for a problem that has been dragging on for several decades without any administration having taken action on the matter.
Carballo asked this question two weeks after DIARIO DE AVISOS denounced the problem that exists in the Cueva del Viento, due to the fact that the residual waters from the nearby houses endanger the volcanic tube and threaten the survival of certain species that inhabit it. place.
The previous week it was the mayor of Icod de los Vinos, Francis González, who blamed the Cabildo de Tenerife for the responsibility of protecting “the largest labyrinthine complex in the world”. As he explained to this newspaper, “the Cabildo has to approve a special protection plan to manage and see the uses that fit from Las Breveritas, where the main entrance is, in private hands, to the head of the urban fabric of the Los Piquetes neighborhood, which is a protected area, whose ownership is, for the most part, of many of the farms”.
According to the local president, the Cabildo’s strategy focuses on carrying out a museum, but with the vision that it be “profitable, affordable and sustainable” in terms of management, but forgets that there is something “beyond” and that It is necessary to have “long lights” to seek financing, clean, carry out the special plan, buy more land and make “the largest labyrinthine complex in the world” more visitable, which has several entrances and exits.
urban fabric
However, the counselor indicated that, “according to the body’s experts – wonderful biologists – there are already reports of this situation since 1995 issued by the University of La Laguna (ULL) that “relate the signs of contamination to the of the municipality and with the development of the neighbourhoods”.
Rivero also clarified that the “visitable section, managed by the Cabildo through the public company Ideco, is not the only one, it is 18 and a half kilometers that do not depend on the Autonomous Organism or the Cabildo. Being an urban area, sanitation and purification correspond to the City Council. The Cabildo cooperates with all the municipalities of the Island to advance in this important need that is the discharges in the area of each one of them”.
In addition, he added that he did so in the Cooperation Plan 2018-2021 and in 2022-2025, and, in the latter, specifically, “it finances 1,462,360 sanitation actions in Icod de los Vinos. What I am not aware of is that the municipality has presented a project with these neighborhoods”, he insisted.
The counselor maintained that they told her that in the past a European subsidy was requested -referring to the Life Nature project- that never materialized. “There are people who say that the work was done and others, that it was not executed, so, if it is a pending work, the Cabildo will open its hand to solve any contamination problem on the Island and in this one too,” he insisted. .
However, the Podemos representative was not satisfied with the explanation. “They throw the ball to each other with the Wind Cave. The mayor says that he is willing to deal with this issue, that it is the Cabildo that does not take the initiative”, and reproached the island government group for saying the same thing but in reverse.
matter of laziness
“It seems a matter of laziness, when there are specific regulations for this underground space, both from the Government of the Canary Islands and from other institutions,” added Carballo.
In his opinion, “natural treatment plants could alleviate this situation, but in this house there are certain reluctance to natural treatment that are cheaper and more efficient.”
Concepción Rivero did not hesitate to close the debate. “Ask the mayor to present a project and request collaboration from the Cabildo. He is the one who has to solve it and, if he needs help, let him ask for it, it’s as simple as that, ”she snapped.
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