The Arona project to deploy a new sanitation, sewerage and wastewater treatment system to eliminate underwater discharges through outfalls has already begun with the opening of the trenches and placement of the collectors in the upper area of the municipality, in the area of Buzanada and Valle San Lorenzo, from where it will descend towards the coast. Having sanitation is an aspiration of the municipality, which for the most part lacks these sewage collection networks.
The mayor of Arona, Jose Julian Menaunderlines “the historical importance and the enormous step that the municipality takes to have a sewerage network, to be able to clean up and reuse its waters and to avoid discharges into the sea”. The works have begun in the midlands and they are those for sanitation in the area called Arona-Este, which includes the vast majority of the municipality, from the towns in the upper part to those in the area between Cho and Guaza and Las Galletas or El Fraile, among others.
The installation of collectors and impellers will mean the construction of these sewage delivery systems that will transport them to the treatment plant. The works of the Montaña Reverón treatment plant were recently awarded for 22 million euros, with which the total investment will amount to more than 70 million euros to end sewage in an environment that concentrates tens of thousands of people. Adding the amount that must be provided for the internal purification system, the figure will rise to around 80 million euros.
The wastewater generated in the Los Cristianos and Playa de the Americas They depend on the Adeje-Arona treatment plant, which is already undergoing expansion works. The works have a execution period of 18 months and will involve the construction of gravity collectors: Arona-Este general collector and collectors of La Camella, La Florida, El Bebedero, Valle San Lorenzo Oeste, Valle San Lorenzo Este, Cáceres, Los Toscales-El Bebedero, Benítez, Los Morritos-Buzanada , Guaza, El Fraile and El Monte-Guargacho.
José Julián Mena and the councilors of Urbanism and Works, Leopoldo Díaz and Julia Morales, assure that it is “the first time that sanitation problems are addressed in an integral way in Arona, thanks to the collaboration between the different administrations”. “It is a fundamental work for the residents, work that solves a serious problem and that allows the municipality to plan for the future,” they said.
