SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 3 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife, through the public company Balsas de Tenerife, has started the contracting procedure for the repair of the largest reclaimed water pipeline on the island for an amount of 1.4 million.
The island councilor for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Javier Parrilla, recalls in a note that in these three years they have had to solve breakdowns and accidents that “have put irrigation in the south of the island in check”, and this situation cannot be keep “longer”.
Parrilla emphasizes that the supply of water for irrigation should be understood as a public service “and in this case it is essential for the hydraulic balance of the island.”
Thus, he points out that “this conduit is a pioneering work in Spanish transport hydraulic engineering, since it was a benchmark and has been demonstrating for 30 years that the reuse of water is possible in the agricultural sector.”
One of the infrastructures managed by Balten is the Santa Cruz-Arona reclaimed water transport pipeline, which consists of a first section of 6.63-kilometre pipeline that conducts the water to a 15,000-meter tank located in El Tablero cubic capacity.
From El Tablero, the 62.22-kilometre-long transport line itself is developed, which runs practically parallel to the Autopista del Sur to the Valle de San Lorenzo reservoir, in Arona, with a capacity of 250,000 cubic metres.
From this point, and after a treatment to reduce salinity levels, the water is distributed in the agricultural region of Las Galletas.
In this sense, the counselor recalls that the conduit that transports reclaimed water from Santa Cruz to the Valle San Lorenzo Balsa has been 30 years old
This service constitutes a system of vital importance for the insular economic development, mainly for the south, since a large part of its purpose is the distribution of water for agricultural irrigation.
In this regard, Parrilla recalls that at the beginning of the year the maintenance contract for all the water pipes was awarded, including this one, “but in this case a broad updating and structural improvement is required.”
All the services of this contract have been optimized from the perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the 2030 Agenda, requiring an express commitment from the bidders and incorporating environmental criteria in a transversal manner.
