The three supply water tanks of La Orotava are already in operation after a comprehensive rehabilitation in which just over 900,000 euros have been invested, of which the Cabildo de Tenerife has financed 80% and the City Council, 20%. remaining. These deposits are located in Los Cuartos, Camino Polo and the so-called La Planta.
During the visit to the rehabilitated infrastructures, the president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín, indicated that the start-up of these “three regulating water supply tanks that give a volume of about 7,500 cubic meters distributed in three different areas and that serve some 14,000 people, a third of the population of the municipality and that needed repair a long time ago”. Likewise, he recognized “that the works have taken time to complete, but they have finally been able to be completed in this mandate. In this way, not only a sufficient supply of water can be guaranteed, but also adequate conditions for water treatment as established by the sanitary regulations”.
For his part, the Councilor for Land Management and Planning, the Environment and Climate Change and Infrastructures, Narciso Pérez, pointed out that “they were very necessary works, infrastructures that are vital for our daily development and thanks to this cooperation between the two administrations today we have modern deposits in safe conditions from the sanitary point of view for the supply of the inhabitants of the municipality”.
For his part, the insular Councilor for Municipal Cooperation and Housing, Zebenzui Chinea, pointed out that “for the Cabildo it was essential to make this contribution to improve and condition the quality of water in this municipality to regulations.”
A total of 330,000 euros was invested in the Los Cuartos deposit; in the Polo road, 350,000 euros, and in La Planta, 220,000. The works consisted of replacing the roofs, beams and pillars that supported the three tanks due to their deterioration. They have also included interior waterproofing and the placement of new entrance pipes on the roof. In order not to interrupt the water supply and guarantee the supply, they were executed in a concatenated manner, so that once the first vessel was finished and put into operation, the next one was continued.
