The works that will provide sewerage to Lomo Pelado and Las Rosas (partially) started today on the Camino de Las Lagunetas. This is the largest public work ever put out to tender by the El Rosario City Council at a cost of 3.5 million euros and which will eliminate the cesspools in this subdivision enclave.
The execution of the project called Sewerage network separating Lomo Pelado and the Lomo Pelado-Las Rosas Pumping Station for Residual Water and Impulsion It will benefit 800 residents, it has a 24-month execution period. Its financing comes from a grant from the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Fight Against Climate Change and Territorial Planning of the Government of the Canary Islands and includes a municipal contribution.
In the first of its four phases, the work runs along the Camino de Las Lagunetas at its junction with the general highway La Esperanza-Llano del Moro (TF-272), an island road that, in turn, will benefit from the execution of the general sanitation collector to allow the incorporation of a large area of the municipality of El Rosario to the Regional Sanitation System of La Esperanza-Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
The works will be carried out in four phases, beginning with the Camino de Las Lagunetas and will last for 24 months.
In this case, the action will be undertaken by the Municipal Cooperation and Housing area of the Cabildo de Tenerife, within the Insular Plan for Cooperation to Works and Services of Municipal Competence, and the completion of both projects will allow the evacuation of wastewater from an important part of El Rosario to the general sewage system of the region.
The remaining phases will be developed progressively on Elías Vera, Bethencourt, Perera, Doctor Caldera, Transversal Doctor Caldera streets and a section of Preventorio, as well as on El Centro, Las Lagunetas and El Chorro roads, a section between the TF- 24 and the rear of the Hermitage of Las Rosas.
The project includes the wastewater pumping station in the lower area of Lomo Pelado, next to El Centro road, which will not only collect the water from this neighborhood, but also that from the next one in Las Rosas, evacuating all of them to the general sewage collector. the La Esperanza-Llano del Moro highway (TF-272), an action that was already contemplated in the document “Diagnostics and Proposals for Actions in the field of Sanitation”, prepared by the Tenerife Island Water Council.
“It will be a before and after to improve the quality of life of residents”
The mayor of El Rosario, Escolástico Gil, supervised the start of this action to improve the water cycle and the sustainability of the territory and highlighted that “with this work we will be able to solve the problem of domestic wastewater sanitation of an important part of the midlands of El Rosario, a commitment that we reached with the vice president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Román Rodríguez, who was in Lomo Pelado during the institutional visit that he made at the end of 2020 and that is subsidized by the Ministry of Ecological Transition, of which the counselor José Antonio Valbuena is in charge.
Escolástico Gil remarks that it is a “fundamental work for the residents” and asks for patience in the face of the inconvenience it may generate in terms of traffic diversions, but “it will be a before and after, it will improve the quality of life of the residents of the zone and will avoid the contamination of our subsoil”.
