SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 22 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife, through the Insular Water Council, has completed the relocation of the Tabaiba Urban Wastewater Pumping Station (EBAR) in the municipality of El Rosario in which the island institution has invested 389,167 euros.
This facility will be responsible for collecting urban wastewater, driving it through a network to the treatment plant.
“In this work, approximately 400,000 euros have been invested and its execution period was 14 months, although we have had to extend it due to some vicissitudes, and with its completion we have managed to put an end to the problem of discharges on the Tabaiba coast, Currently, the waters are already being treated adequately and being transported through an underwater outfall that meets all the requirements established by law,” said the Minister for Sustainable Development and the Fight Against Climate Change, Javier Rodríguez, in a note .
This work joins others that the Cabildo has developed in the municipality of El Rosario, among which are the 14 million euros of investment in the La Campana industrial estate, in addition to the works in the industrial wastewater treatment plant of the Polygon, already completed, and which involved a cost of 1.5 million euros for the island corporation and other actions such as channeling the ravine, the electrical connection and the conditioning of the diversion that is next to the polygon.
However, regarding the EBAR of Tabaiba, the councilor added that “now it is the municipal responsibility to demand that buildings and communities be connected to this new network and that discharges into the Fligueras ravine be reduced through septic tanks and absorbent”.
Rodríguez also indicated that “Tenerife has a pending issue with sanitation and purification and a very important delay in this area”, and pointed out that they want to put an end to this negative situation for the island and its environment.
“That is why we are investing like never before, we have even signed the largest agreement in the history of the Cabildo with him to end the discharges on our coast, all this now transcends political commitments and has translated into the execution of works” , he indicated.
The Tabaiba II Pumping Station was in the maritime-terrestrial public domain, affected by the Coastal Law, for which reason it has been relocated outside this domain, the previous one has been demolished and a section of the network has been built from of the streets Belgium and Italy.
This will allow the collected water to reach the head of the outfall, avoiding discharges.
