Lomo Pelado is one of those middle class nuclei characteristic of practically any municipality in the Islands and which, like the vast majority of them, presents a historic deficit in terms of public sanitation service networks. The total absence of sewerage networks and evacuation of the wastewater generated by its inhabitants has meant that, consequently, for decades cesspools have been the traditional means with which its inhabitants disposed of the black and gray water they generated. A formula that the City Council of El Rosario wants to banish forever in the face of the damage that this outdated system represents, both for the environment, as well as for the subsoil or nearby ravines, and can even, on occasions, affect the quality of the aquifers.
Therefore, around 230 families of Peeled Loinabout 800 equivalent inhabitants, have received by letter the news of the imminent start of the works of the Separative Sewerage Network of Lomo Pelado and the Residual Water Pumping Station and Lomo Pelado-Las Rosas Impulsion, a performance of no less than 3′ 5 million euros that is subsidized by the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Fight Against Climate Change and Territorial Planning of the Government of the Canary Islands and includes a municipal contribution.
The mayor, “proud”
The mayor of El Rosario, Escolástico Gil, is “proud” of this milestone in improving the water cycle and sustainability. «We are talking about solving the problem of cleaning domestic wastewater from an important part of the El Rosario midlands, a commitment we reached with the Vice President of the Government of the Canary IslandsRomán Rodríguez, who was in the Lomo Pelado area during the institutional visit he made to the Municipality at the end of 2020 and whose commitment was endorsed in July of this year, when we publicly presented this and other projects in which the Government of the Autonomous Community for an amount of 7.65 million euros”.
The work will begin in the area of the Las Lagunetas road, at its junction with the general highway La Esperanza-Llano del Moro (TF-272), an insular road that in turn will benefit from the execution of the general sanitation collector, to allow the incorporation of a large area of the municipality of El Rosario to the Regional Sanitation System of La Esperanza-Santa Cruz de Tenerife. In this case, the action will be undertaken by the Municipal Cooperation and Housing area of the Cabildo de Tenerife, within the Insular Plan for Cooperation to Works and Services of Municipal Competence, and the completion of both projects will allow the evacuation of wastewater from an important part of El Rosario to the general sewage system of the region.
Due to the importance of the project, awarded to Construcciones Elfidio Pérez SL-Obras Geotécnicas de Canary Islands SL, the works have been distributed in four phases over a 24-month execution period. The works will be carried out progressively on Elías Vera, Bethencourt, Perera, Doctor Caldera, Transversal Doctor Caldera streets and a section of Preventorio, as well as on El Centro, Las Lagunetas and El Chorro roads and a section between TF-24 and the rear of the Hermitage of Las Rosas.
Fire station
In addition to the primary drainage and sanitation networks, manholes and scuppers, the wastewater pumping station will be built in the lower area of the Lomo Pelado neighborhood, next to El Centro road, which will not only collect the water from this neighborhood , but also those of the nearby Las Rosas, evacuating all of them to the general collector of the La Esperanza-Llano del Moro highway (TF-272), an action that was already contemplated in the document Diagnostics and Proposals for Actions in the field of Sanitation, Prepared by the Insular Water Council.
rural enclaves
Together with Las Rosas, Las Barreras and, of course, the town of La Esperanza –despite its somewhat more urban character as it is the municipal administrative capital– they make up the prototypical enclave of the most rural areas of the municipality of El Rosario in which, As in so many others of the same style, more or less scattered single-family homes, livestock or agricultural farms and small orchards, generally destined for self-consumption, converge.
For this reason, the mayor underlines “the importance” of an action “with which we will achieve a more sustainable municipality and with zero wastewater discharges in our natural environments.” Escolástico Gil points out that the Lomo Pelado Separative Sewerage Network and the Lomo Pelado-Las Rosas Wastewater Pumping Station project is “a fundamental work for the residents, which will cause inconvenience for some time in certain streets, but that, at its end, will put this important area of El Rosario in the 21st century, with a sewerage and sanitation network that will be a before and after to improve the quality of life of the residents of the area.
