The island president, Pedro Martin (PSOE), visited the raft yesterday, accompanied by the insular councilor of Agriculture, Javier Parrilla; the mayor ramblero, Ezequiel Dominguez, and the insular director of Agriculture and Rural Development, Cayetano Silva, among other authorities. Martín stressed that this action, which has been carried out with “a leading and benchmark technology”, “will now continue in the middle of the city center. Benijos, on La Orotava, where we will invest more than one million euros ”.
Martín added that «for the Council It is essential to supply water to the island’s crops and also ensure the efficiency of the storage facilities, thereby contributing to the preservation of the island’s natural resources ”. In his opinion, “the commitment to water quality is indisputable to favor farmers and ranchers. And this we have achieved after meticulous cleaning and waterproofing work».
Ezequiel Dominguez He valued the project carried out by the Cabildo, through the public company Balten, which “will provide water, not only to the lands of our municipality, but to the entire region.” Balten’s manager, Ana Sánchez Quesadas, explained that in the work they have used “materials, technologies and controls much more advanced in waterproofing than those that originally existed. The biggest challenge that the public company has faced during the work has been to continue maintaining the irrigation service in the area throughout the period in which the pond has been empty.
The sludge extracted from the reservoir has been used to improve soils for agricultural use
The technology used makes this pond “a national benchmark in waterproofing works and studies, leading projects in agreement with the Center for Studies and Experimentation of Public Works (Cedex)», According to Sánchez Quesadas. For the manager of Balten, “This line of research is essential for the growth and continuous improvement of the service we provide.”
The technical director of the work, Tatiana vara, stated that “an improvement has been carried out in all the pumping systems, and the automation of the system, which was totally obsolete, which allows improving the quality of the service.” The emptying process allowed, at the proposal of the Rural Development Service of the Cabildo de Tenerife, “The reuse of the extracted sludge after cleaning the basin; a high-quality agricultural material for the improvement of soils on farms of the island institution, also avoiding overloading in landfills ».
Grill He emphasized the need to optimize all the water storage and conduction infrastructures, “since it is essential to have sufficient irrigation, at an adequate cost and with the qualities required to supply the primary sector of the island.” In addition, he added that “these investments are necessary because water is a scarce commodity and these facilities, created in 1986, had never been the object of a comprehensive action ”.
