The shovels and operators return to the La Campana industrial estateone of the most important workplaces in the metropolitan area, which is home to nearly 300 companies and to which more than 2,500 workers go every day. The reform works stopped two years ago, when the Cabildo de Tenerife terminated the contract with the company that had won the initial tender, Construcciones Abaldo SA, upon detecting irregularities in the work.
The circumstance occurs that the City Council of El Rosario, the administration that bet and fought for this project since the arrival of Escolástico Gil to the Mayor’s Office in mid-2015, it had already alerted a few months after the start of the work (in March 2020) that this was not going well.
13
millions of euros
- The cost of the rehabilitation work on the La Campana industrial estate was estimated at 9 million euros but will ultimately be 13 million euros.
Escolástico Gil assured during a visit to the resumption of work that, as he already warned in 2020, he will monitor all phases of the improvement of this highly degraded industrial space: «The polygon is in the municipality of El Rosario and when the works make it necessary to cut off the water, those who will suffer will be my neighbors. For this reason, in the City Council we will be vigilant in the development of the entire process ».
The work is now carried out by the joint venture formed by Satocan, Hidrotec and Ten Asfaltos, and the budget has risen to 13 million euros, compared to the 9 for which it was initially awarded. The first Rosariero mayor always maintained that “this budget difference (the agreement for his reform had been signed in 2018 for 13.3 million euros) already portended the worst because nobody gives hard four pesetas.”
So much so that in July 2020, six months before the contract was terminated, the El Rosario City Council had already transferred to the Cabildo de Tenerife an exhaustive report, signed by municipal technicians, through which all non-compliances located on site.
Escolástico Gil explains that the development of the works “must coincide with the original project, both in the quality of the materials and in the different aspects” of a reform that is co-financed by the Island Corporation by 90% and the Rosario City Council and the businessmen themselves. of the Polygon, the remaining 10%.
The agreement that supported this reform, a historical demand of the municipality of El Rosario, was signed in September 2018, with the president of the Cabildo today being the island councilor Carlos Alonso (CC), together with Escolástico Gil and the president of the Entity of Conservation of the San Isidro El Chorrillo Polygon, Facundo García.
Thus, The councilor laments «all the time wasted which, yes, has served to make La Campana, today, the only industrial estate in Canary Islands which has its own Water Treatment Plant Residuales, inaugurated in June 2021, initially financed entirely by the El Rosario City Council and which provided a solution to the episode of discharges into the sea that occurred at the beginning of 2020 ».
The works planned in the area will consist of the reform and adaptation of the urbanization and facilities of the polygon to solve the existing problems in the area. Among the planned actions, a new distribution of the directions and standard sections of the roads will be carried out, in order to gain more parking spaces; the resurfacing of streets and a new concrete surface for the sidewalks; and the renovation of the sanitation, rainwater, medium voltage, public lighting, supply, telecommunications, irrigation and fire-fighting networks.
The councilor from Rosario stresses that “since 2015 we have been fighting to make the improvement of the estate a reality and, in fact, we reached the commitment with the Cabildo that this be the first major work within the Island Strategy for Intervention in Industrial Estates of Tenerife, which at that time the insular Corporation was gestating ». For this reason, Gil wishes that “the current island government does not return to destroy the work carried out for so many years by the City Council and by its own predecessors in the island institution.
90%
contribution of the council
- The Cabildo de Tenerife contributes 90% of the cost of the work to improve the La Campana Industrial Estate, while the El Rosario City Council and the companies provide the remaining 10%.
A “complex” project
Pedro Martín, president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, assured last November that the works were going to resume before the end of that month but they were delayed and it is now that they have finally started. Martín explained then that as it is a complex work, it is possible that the rehabilitation project will take more than a year.
To do this, it will be a matter of making the most of the weekends and delaying the schedule of the works from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. In this way, it will avoid interfering with the entry and exit of workers and first customers of the day. For its part, it is guaranteed that asphalting work will be carried out only at night, except in exceptional cases.
Shovels and trucks return to the La Campana industrial estate to reform it after the works were stopped for two years.
