The mayor of El Rosario, Escolástico Gil, and the deputy councillor of Territorial Cohesion and Water from the Government of the Canary Islands, Marcos Lorenzo, visited yesterday the rehabilitation work of the Tabaiba I drinking water tank, which is being carried out with a total investment of 707,967 euros, of which the regional government is contributing 604,594 euros and the El Rosario City Council, 103,372 euros. “This is an important renovation work that will put into service the old bicompartmental tank with a total water storage capacity of 2,400 cubic meters, which will be added to the 4,000 cubic meters of the Tabaiba II tank, which was commissioned in 2019,” stated the Rosario City Council in a press release.
Escolástico Gil thanked the regional deputy councillor for his commitment to improving the water cycle. “Marcos Lorenzo has been a mayor and knows the problems that municipalities face in updating infrastructure that was built forty years ago and we need to progressively renew,” Gil emphasized. In addition, in addition to the renovation of the Tabaiba I tank, the mayor also highlighted the need to rehabilitate the tanks of La Montañeta through a project that, due to its high cost, estimated to exceed two million euros, would be carried out in phases.
The deputy councillor of Territorial Cohesion and Water of the Government of Canary Islands, Marcos Lorenzo, who was accompanied by the Director General of Water, Mónica Gómez, expressed the government’s interest in helping Canarian municipalities in progressively improving hydraulic infrastructure. “El Rosario is one of the municipalities that is doing its homework and planning ahead for the future of its hydraulic infrastructure, so from the Water Department, we will continue to invest adequately in those most urgent needs regarding the integral water cycle in the Canary Islands, with special attention to those smaller municipalities that require assistance to carry out certain investments,” detailed Marcos Lorenzo.
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The work being carried out on the Tabaiba I tank will adapt an infrastructure that was built in 1962 and last intervened during the period 1987-1991 when its expansion was carried out, but maintaining the old valve chamber. The current works consist of adapting the Tabaiba I tank to Royal Decree 140/2003, of February 7, which establishes the health criteria for the quality of drinking water, along with the modification of the current slab and a slight increase in storage volume capacity.
