SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife, through the Insular Water Council (CIATF), will allocate 6.5 million euros of this year’s budget to two sanitation projects with which it wants to continue promoting the treatment of wastewater in the municipalities of Guimar and Candelaria.
Specifically, the General Meeting of the CIATF agreed to invest 5.4 million euros of the remaining treasury in the construction and start-up of the Los Tarajales pumping station, in the Puertito de Güímar, to transfer the wastewater from this nucleus to the Güímar Valley regional treatment plant for its regeneration and reuse.
At the same time, an item of 1.1 million euros was approved for the construction of the general collectors of the coast of the municipality of Candelaria, to collect and facilitate the incorporation of wastewater from this area into the same sanitation and purification system of the Valle de Güímar, collects a note from the Cabildo.
The acting island president, Pedro Martín, explains that both investments “will make it possible to end discharges into the sea both on the coast of Candelaria and in El Puertito and continue working on improving wastewater treatment so that, in addition to complying with the European regulations on sanitation, we can make the most of reclaimed water, to offer the primary sector water in quantity, quality and at a good price”.
Pedro Martín highlights the collaboration provided by the municipalities and explains that the Insular Water Council is pending the signing of collaboration agreements with the municipalities of Güímar and Candelaria to carry out both projects, which will have to be tendered and executed by local corporations.
For his part, the acting counselor for the Sustainable Development and Fight against Climate Change area, Javier Rodríguez, stresses that “it is not only a question of debugging, but of giving a second life to resources, and advancing towards a development model environmentally friendly”.
Along these lines, he recalls that “the treatment capacity of the island in 2019 did not exceed 25 cubic hectometres per year, which represented 40% of the residual water, while the forecast for 2024 will be to exceed 63 cubic hectometres per year, which supposes the practical totality”.
