Santa Cruz will be the first municipality in the Canary Islands with zero discharges of wastewater along the entire coastline. This was announced yesterday by the Councilor for Environmental Sustainability and Public Services of the City Council, Carlos Tarifeduring his speech at the inauguration of the II Biodiversity Conference, organized by the Cepsa Foundation in the capital of Tenerife.
In this sense, Tarife predicted that “Santa Cruz has very important challenges for the coming years, among them making the Chicharrero coastline 100% sustainable by 2025 and also, recover the Blue Flag which he lost 23 years ago. Something that we will have again and in different bathing areas of the capital.”
The first deputy mayor also pointed out that to achieve these objectives “the City Council continues working on the Zero Discharge Plan that it executes together with Emmasa. Projects for which it is intervening in Tachero, Añaza and Acorán, together with the actions in Igueste de San Andrés, Anatolio Fuentes (La Hondura dock) and San Andrés-María Jiménez.”
In this sense, the mayor, José Manuel Bermúdez, confirmed during his speech at the Cepsa Foundation meeting that “many necessary works are already being carried out within the Zero Discharge Plan, such as the expansion of the Buenos Aires treatment plant. . Work that is necessary to achieve a more sustainable city not only on its coast, but in its entirety because it will be part of the Low Emissions Zone starting next year.”
A commitment to a city that is an example of biodiversity, to which will also be added the recently approved dismantling of the Refinery by the regional government. Transfer of facilities to the port of Granadilla that will provide Santa Cruz with “more than 570,000 square meters of urban rehabilitation opportunities,” recalled the mayor, Carlos Tarife.
Projects
At the inauguration of the II Biodiversity Conference, which under the title The conversation on biodiversity, key to sustainability in the Canary Islands and Andalusia, took place at the Oliver Club in the capital, the vice president of Fundación Cepsa, Teresa Mañueco, was also present. ; the insular director of Waste of the Cabildo of Tenerife, Alejandro Molowny, and the general director of Natural Spaces and Biodiversity of the Government of the Canary Islands, Miguel Ángel Morcuende.
For his part, Mañueco highlighted the importance of Santa Cruz as a strategic territory, which is why “Cepsa collaborates in projects such as the recovery of Palmetum or the vegetal landscape of Las Mesas Park.”
Meanwhile, Molowny advocated for “continuing collaboration between public and private institutions in favor of conserving biodiversity,” and announced the beginning of environmental volunteer training projects between the Cabildo and the Cepsa Foundation.
Finally, Morcuende opted to unify actions that make synergies more visible in favor of biodiversity conservation.
