Tabaiba will receive 1.8 million euros to improve its coastline. He Government of the Canary Islands has projected in this enclave belonging to El Rosario different works through which it will act on its breakwater and access to the sea, among other measures, as reported yesterday after a visit to the area by the Ecological Transition Minister, José Antonio Valbuena , and the mayor of Rosario, Escolástico Gil.
Specific, These actions are part of a plan for “mitigation and adaptation to climate change and its main effects, such as the foreseeable rise in sea level in island territories”, as reported by the regional Executive in a press release. “Throughout the development of the works, noble and durable materials will be used, under the principle of environmental integration, and vegetation typical of the marine environment will be planted, which favors shady spaces in several selected points of the coastline” , they specified.
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The planned works will contribute, among other aspects, also to the improvement of the sanitation and domestic wastewater treatment system in the nearby urban area, “so that there will be no uncontrolled and inappropriate discharges into the sea,” the note states.
Breakwater restoration
Valbuena explained that more than 1,800,000 euros will be entrusted to these works for “actions aimed at improving and restoring the current breakwater located on the esplanade in front of the promenade, improving accessibility to the sea for citizens, conditioning and integration of the esplanade as a stay area and the correction of impacts on the beach in the area, among others”.
For his part, Escolástico Gil, stressed that through this project “a deteriorated space is recovered and that does not do justice to the potential of this part of our coast.” Likewise, the first Rosariero mayor recalled that the project for the reform of the esplanade on the Tabaiba front had already been commissioned and financed by the local Corporation.
Gratitude
Gil thanked the collaboration of the Provincial Directorate of Coasts, to which I presented the project at the end of 2021, as well as the Government of Canary Islands. The local councilor highlighted the collaboration of both the vice president and Treasury counselorRomán Rodríguez, as well as counselor José Antonio Valbuena, “as the head of the Ecological Transition area, with whom we always maintain an excellent relationship given our mutual interest in promoting ecological and sustainable projects.”
Valbuena recalled that “this and other subsidized projects in this legislature have been a milestone for the history of the Canary Islands, since it is about the first time that climate change adaptation and mitigation projects have been financed in the Islands by the regional Executive».
