SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 12 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Cabildo de La Palma, Sergio Rodríguez, has transferred to the Special Commissioner for Reconstruction, Héctor Izquierdo, the will of the insular Institution to “give an immediate response to the residents of Puerto Naos and La Bombilla”, who still cannot return home due to the presence of gases.
In this sense, the leader of the first Corporation has offered the representative of the State “the necessary resources to install forced ventilation systems in places where there are higher concentrations of these compounds”; an action that is in line with the position defended by the president at the meeting of the Peinpal Advisory Committee held this Monday.
There, Sergio Rodríguez put on the table different measures to expedite solutions for residents in the coastal areas of the Aridane Valley affected by this problem, such as the extension of the validity of QR codes for three months (compared to the current month). , the development of a mobile application to check the status of the different areas in real time or the procedures that are already being carried out to allow the recovery of farms on the edges of the lava flows.
The approach studied today, during a telematic meeting between the president of La Palma, the Commissioner and representatives of the National Geographic Institute (IGN) and the Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands (INVOLCAN), consists of placing gas extraction devices in up to 326 locations. This is: two basements, 52 garages, 85 premises and 187 ground floors. These devices would also have underground pipes to channel carbon dioxide into the sea.
However, to carry out the incorporation of all these systems, it is necessary to write a preliminary project, which will be contracted by the IGN. That is why the Cabildo has expressed the intention to take steps forward “right now” and start installing the instruments in the areas hardest hit by this post-volcano catastrophe.
In the course of the meeting, other possible formulas were also addressed to speed up the recovery of daily life in both neighbourhoods. “Our objective, and we made it clear from the beginning, is for people to recover their life projects, their houses, their businesses, and return to the path of social and economic progress. For this we have to take firm steps, with rhythm; that is the new imprint that we are marking in the Island Council of La Palma”, stressed Sergio Rodríguez.
