The Cabildo undertakes the works to preserve the 70 kilometers of pipeline that transport reclaimed water for risk from the Buenos Aires treatment plant (Santa Cruz de Tenerife) to the pool of Valle de San Lorenzo (Arona). The company Técnicas de Desalinización de Aguas SA (Tedagua) has one year to complete the works awarded for 1,395,302 euros.
The deterioration of this pipeline, put into service 30 years ago (since April 15, 1993), repair and improve a first section of pipeline of 6.63 kilometers to a reservoir located in the board, of 15,000 cubic meters. From here, there are 62.22 kilometers of pipeline that run parallel to the Autopista del Sur to the Valle de San Lorenzo pond, with a capacity of 250,000 cubic meters.
The acting it will improve the passage works, manholes and other structural elements, it will replace valves, it will reinforce the anchorages and it will install new control devices. “We have a tube for a while, if we keep it”, explained technicians from the company awarded the work. In fact, they assured that Morocco and Saudi Arabia, for example, are studying the Tenerife model in terms of water.
During his visit to the works, together with the mayoress of Candelaria, Mari Brito, and the island councilor of the Primary Sector, Javier Parrilla, the president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín, referred to the fact that “this strategic installation for Balten and for the south of the Island, a pioneer in Canary Islands», is a fundamental part of the Corporation’s commitment to “a model that occupies little territory and serves to support quality agriculture, in addition to improving the supply of groundwater.”
Pedro Martín explained that the insular Government “plans improvements in different facilities to transfer water from Santa Cruz to the North and open new tanks and ponds that make it possible to have reclaimed water for agriculture, which requires alternatives for irrigation.” When the purification systems and the desalination extensions of the Santa Cruz treatment plant and the Adeje-Arona desalination plant are in service, “this pipeline will guarantee the island’s hydraulic balance,” he added. Within this framework, he announced the commitment of the Island Corporation to build a desalination plant in the Güímar Valley that guarantees irrigation water for an agricultural area of great interest and quality.
