The agreement signed between the Cabildo de Tenerife and the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge to execute five large sanitation and purification improvement systems has already awarded more than 153 of the 200 million euros it has, and which will come to solve the historical problem of wastewater discharges.
The president of the council, Peter Martinpoints out in a statement that since 2020 works are being carried out that will result in the elimination of wastewater discharges into the sea and the subsoil, and opens a new door to purification on the island based on sustainability and that will contribute to the agriculture a new resource from reclaimed water, as is already being done in Valle Guerra.
Pedro Martín reiterates that “wastewater treatment on the island was in a critical state, something that could not be allowed in any way and on which we have focused during these four years”, and the start-up of the agreement “has given a real boost to that objective, because Tenerife cannot afford to continue being penalized for not having a purification policy in keeping with the times.”
“Four years ago we found ourselves in a bleak panorama made up of works without a project, obsolete installations, filter grids and antiquated tubes, and we have started up once and for all, not in a speech but in reality, with the shovels and the constructions a network that in a few years will provide a true oxygen balloon to the island, which was mired in a catastrophic situation as far as water treatment is concerned”, indicates Martín.
For his part, the councilor of the Cabildo de Desarrollo Sostenible y Lucha Contra el Cambio Climático, Javier Rodriguez Medinaremarks that “the pieces of this important and decisive project are thus being completed to ensure that the island of Tenerife has a water purification system in accordance with the population and current characteristics”.
In this regard, he highlights the important effort that the Island Water Council and the Cabildo are carrying out to implement a “true plan that addresses the generation of wastewater, transforming and regenerating it for agricultural use and subtracting from dump polluted water into the sea.
Among the latest advances in the agreement with acuaes The start-up of works on the Arona-San Miguel system, the largest project included in this agreement, stands out.
“Work is already underway on four collectors and impulsions that will send the wastewater flow from the region to the future treatment plant that will be located in Arona”, points out the counselor, “two in the municipality of Arona and two in the municipality of San Miguel de Abona, and which will cost just over forty million euros, and its completion is scheduled for May 2024.
As for the treatment plant of this system “the works have not yet started because it is waiting for the necessary archaeological studies for its start.”
In this new plant, which will begin shortly, “more than 22 million euros will be invested, and once the works begin, it is expected to be completed in 30 months,” says Rodríguez.
For the rest, the agreement with Acuaes contemplates the systems of Acentejo, Valle de La Orotava, Granadilla and Oeste, all of them with works in progress.
