Emilio Navarro, mayor of Santiago del Teide, was moderately optimistic about the neighbors affected by the dust and earth emanating from the work of the Insular Ring. A situation that has already generated a lot of discomfort and difficulties for the population living in the streets of the urban area Fernando del Hoyo and Masca, as well as on La Iglesia avenue. In a meeting held this week with affected neighbors, he reported on the steps taken and the measures applied in recent weeks “which have led to improvements in the situation, but it is still insufficient.”
The Santiago councilor explains that this problem “is addressed from the first moment”, since in mid-July 2021 it was registered for the first time, moment in which the City Council requested from the Ministry of Public Works of the Government of the Canary Islands corrective measures for the work of processing the aggregate obtained in the execution of the third phase of the Insular Ring. On that occasion, the mayor asked for speed in the application of the solutions.
A year later, the situation is reproduced and the Mayor’s Office reported yesterday that neighbors, technicians and authorities have held regular and frequent meetings in order to demand and promote solutions “that are coming.” The next one will take place in 10 days. “There is progress, we are analyzing the results and we are convinced that it will be resolved, as happened last year.”
remembered that to carry out the third phase of the Insular Ring, the section that runs from Santiago del Teide to El Tanque and which consists of building the Erjos tunnelthe project approved by the previous regional Executive contemplated the crusher to treat the aggregate of this work.
Canarian Coalition contradicted him and accused him of “lying to the neighbors.” In a statement issued yesterday, the nationalist municipal spokesperson, Ariana Trujillo, stated that “the authorization of the aggregate crusher was granted by resolution of November 10, 2020 by the current Canary Islands Government and notified the City Council, which did not present any allegation or appeal against it, giving the green light to its installation.
In addition to not understanding why this equipment is authorized, the nationalists recall that CC has been transferring this problem to different institutions for two years, but “we found a potentially polluting plant just a hundred meters from the homes without anyone with responsibility for The government would have done nothing more than pass the buck,” says the councilor and spokesperson, Ariana Trujillo.
