SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 20 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The wastewater collectors of Los Martillos, Los Cuartos, La Florida, San Jerónimo and Puerto de la Cruz will complete a total of about ten sections of pipe distributed between the municipalities of La Orotava, Los Realejos, Puerto de la Cruz and Santa Úrsula, with a total length of almost 12 km, which are included in the Cabildo Agreement with Acuaes for the construction of five large purification systems in Tenerife and whose investment exceeds 170 million euros.
The councilor for Sustainable Development and the Fight Against Climate Change of the Cabildo and vice president of the Insular Water Council, Javier Rodríguez Medina, and the mayor of Puerto de la Cruz, Marco González, visited last week the execution works of the section of Puerto de la Cruz, one of the actions of the purification system of the Valle de La Orotava and that will complete this network “essential for the wastewater to be channeled and treated in accordance with the regulations,” said the counselor.
“The Valle de La Orotava system is made up of several interventions, including this section of Puerto de la Cruz, which will serve the new treatment plant that will be located in the Punta Brava area, in Puerto de la Cruz, and which will solve serious damage to the environment by releasing the discharge of wastewater into the subsoil in the valley,” said Rodríguez Medina.
The counselor pointed out that it is necessary to take into account “that we are in a heavily polluted region because there is a high number of cesspools”, and recalled that it is necessary to comply “with the directive on the adequate treatment of residual waters and also to put an end to the problem of contamination of the aquifer, which is produced by the existence of these wells, and for this, through this network we will be able to take all the wastewater to the regional treatment plant that we are also expanding to achieve this end”.
The mayor Marco González appreciated the planning that is followed by the Cabildo de Tenerife, through the Insular Water Council, to promote this much-needed action carried out by the public company ACUAES dependent on the Ministry of Ecological Transition “to continue advancing all the administrations in the treatment of wastewater that has to culminate with the already planned expansion and integral improvement of the WWTP of the Valley of La Orotava, which should be in the coming years a model to convert purified water into a new resource to be reused”.
In this sense, since March 2022, works are being carried out on main collectors, especially in this system that includes the municipalities of Puerto de la Cruz, Los Realejos and La Orotava, which are the areas with the most deficits in the sanitation network, for an amount of almost twelve million euros. These actions were awarded to the Construcciones Daltre-Martín Casillas Joint Venture and are scheduled to end before December 2023.
