The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries in functions of the Cabildo de TenerifeJavier Parrilla, reports this Thursday that The Montaña de Taco reservoir, in Buenavista del Norte, is already operating at full capacity and facilitates the supply of reclaimed water to the more than 1,300 hectares of crops on Isla Baja.
Parrilla visited the pond on Tuesday together with the mayors of Buenavista del Norte and Los Silos, Eva García and Carmen Luz Baso, respectively, to report on the re-waterproofing worksn that ended at the beginning of the month and in which the insular corporation has invested 1.7 million euros.
The island councilor explained that to allow filling while the works continued, a ring technique has been used, a procedure that has allowed water to be stored since the beginning of March.
During the visit, the island manager stressed that “it is 30 years since the use of reclaimed water in Tenerife, an alternative that already accounts for 55 percent of the global supply for agriculture on the island and that allows us to offer a stable, profitable supply and quality, so work will continue to promote this resource on Isla Baja, one of the areas with the largest agricultural area on the island”.
For her part, Carmen Luz Baso emphasized that “this is one more step in the works required to guarantee the water supply in the region.”
In his opinion, “this is good news and from the administrations we must continue working and collaborating to optimize unconventional water resources, such as reclaimed water, which help to guarantee the productivity and future of agriculture on the island.”
Forty years of activity
Eva García thanked the Cabildo for “the sensitivity for the prompt adaptation of an essential resource for the farmers of Buenavista del Norte and the region.”
In this sense, he recalled that “the Taco Mountain raft has been meeting the needs of producers for about 40 years” and therefore “collaboration with the Cabildo is important to carry out policies that improve the quality and quantity of irrigation water”.
The works on the Montaña de Taco raft were divided into three phases. The first contemplated the acquisition of the sheets, the second, the waterproofing of the first seven meters of height of the reservoir, with the aim of allowing the filling up to that level and the third, the waterproofing of the remaining six meters up to the crown of the basin. .
This represents the fifth action related to the maintenance of the pools in Tenerife, after the one in Valle Molina, in Tegueste; The Saltadero, in Granadilla; Llanos de Mesa, in San Juan de la Rambla and that of Benijos, in La Orotava, currently under construction, includes a note from the Cabildo.
The Taco Mountain raft was the first to be builte Within the works programmed in the Plan de Balsas del Norte de Tenerife, between April 1983 and October 1985 and with 821,739 cubic meters of capacity and 13.70 meters of water height, it is the largest irrigation water tank in the island.
