The Governing Board of the Santa Cruz City Council yesterday approved the project to rehabilitate the drainage pipe located downstream of Anatolio Fuentes street, which discharges into the La Hondura pier, in the area known as La Cascada. This discharge point, which is located between the Refinery and the coastal battery, comes from the surplus water from the Santa Cruz Wastewater Treatment Plant (EDAR) that is produced when it rains excessively. This work aims to rehabilitate the current drainage to connect it with an underwater tube that moves the discharge that is now visible away from the coast.
The agreement signed with the Cabildo de Tenerife in 2021 allows the Santa Cruz City Council to execute a work that will cost more than one million euros, of which the Cabildo will contribute 865,689, 80% of the total, and the Consistory, another 216,422 euros . The project, which was signed in 2019, has had to be updated due to the change in prices, and due to the impossibility of occupying the TF-4, as included in the original work.
The latter has made it necessary to change it, and, therefore, to an increase in the budget, so that the area to be occupied is the area of La Cascada, prior to the insular route. This means that the budget rises to 1.3 million.
In any case, the execution period will not be increased, being estimated at 11 months.
After the approval of the project, it will be possible to proceed with the bidding for the work, which has been delayed for almost a year, since this intervention was scheduled to begin last year.
