The mayor of La Laguna, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez, has received confirmation from the Tenerife Island Water Council (CIATF) that the canalization project for the Carnicería ravine has received favorable reports from the departments of Hydraulic Infrastructure and Hydraulic Resources, which concludes all the previous processes to be able to tender the works.
The president celebrates a resolution “that will allow us to carry out the contracting of an essential work for the construction of the long-awaited municipal market in its old location in the Plaza del Adelantado. Without the channeling of the Carnicería ravine, the project cannot be undertaken. Hence the importance of these favorable reports”.
The current layout of the Carnicería ravine runs below the plot on which the future Market is planned to be built, which in addition to the new building entails the construction of an underground car park and a new square. For this reason, it was necessary to modify the layout of the canalization of the channel of the ravine in the section between the Camino de San Roque and the Palace of Justice.
The City Council already has the execution project and construction management, for which an investment of more than 193,000 euros was made. This has now been endorsed by the CIAFT and establishes the particularities to carry out the new channeling so that it has adequate hydraulic behavior.
The mayor advances that the Consistory contemplates a specific item in the project of the municipal budgets of 2023, with which the works can be contracted and begin to be executed in the present exercise. This is a technically complex intervention, due to the characteristics of the terrain, which requires special foundations and piling, to which must be added the consolidation work on the slope of the ravine.
“The canalization of the Carnicería ravine represents a decisive impulse to start the process that the lagoons have demanded so much, which is the return of the municipal market to its former location in the Plaza del Adelantado after more than a decade. We want to have modern, functional facilities that meet the needs of the recoverers and recoverers, and at the same time integrated into the patrimonial environment of the square. But to get to that point, we must first undertake these canalization works that we are close to contracting,” says the mayor.
Luis Yeray Gutiérrez appreciates “the quick response from the CIATF, to whom we sent the project in October, being a very complex technical document, which had to be analyzed in detail to guarantee that the new canalization of the ravine complies with all safety requirements ”.
