The Government of the Canary Islands urges the Tenerife Island Water Council (Ciatfe) to initiate a new sanction procedure against the Buenavista del Norte City Council for dumping wastewater into the subsoil without authorization, because the previous sanction file has expired. The Cabildo had sanctioned the Consistory with 60,000 euros as allegedly responsible for the commission of a very serious infraction in water matters.
This sanction, according to the decree approved last February by the Canarian Executive and to which DIARIO DE AVISOS has had access, has been rendered ineffective, due to the fact that the expiration period foreseen has been exceeded and, therefore, if the Ciatfe decides to maintain the sanction and must start a new process.
The decree of the Governing Council specifies that this may be done “provided that the prescribed period for very serious infringements has not elapsed”, and the aforementioned autonomous body dependent on the Cabildo has been notified of this.
This was the one who opened the proposal for a sanction of 60,000 euros to the Consistory in February 2021, because he considered that the Wastewater Treatment Plant (EDAR) does not have the necessary administrative authorization to be able to discharge water into the subsoil. It was transferred to the Ministry of Ecological Transition, Fight against Climate Change and Territorial Planning because it is competent to impose the sanctions considered very serious.
Faced with this situation, the City Council presented two appeals to avoid a fine that it considered unfair from the outset, derived from a document full of “contradictions and inconsistencies”, which is part of the debate surrounding the treatment of wastewater on the Island. Low, for which the local government proposes extensive natural purification against the construction of a regional WWTP.
Mayor, Anthony Gonzalez, gives the procedure for settled. “They upheld the appeal for replacement presented, with which, as the government partners transparently advanced, the sanction has declined, a natural step because we were convinced that this was what was going to happen,” he told this newspaper. .
