With only a few days of delay on the foreseen term, the pre-treatment plant of the Polígono Valle de Güímar treatment plant enters service. It supposes a reduction in the pollution generated by the activity of the most important industrial area of the Island and helps to avoid the sanctions imposed by Europe (600,000 euros every six months), highlighted the Minister of Sustainable Development and the Fight against Climate Change of the Tenerife Council, Javier Rodríguez Medina.
The Insular Water Council of Tenerife (Ciatf) yesterday connected the wastewater flow from the Güímar Industrial Park to the new pre-treatment infrastructure of the future Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant (Edari), an urgent need, explained the counselor. “It is the first step in the construction of the polygon’s treatment plant and, although it is a pre-treatment, it greatly improves the water processes, which until now were reduced to filtering and sifting”, explained Rodríguez Medina.
The Güímar Valley receives an investment of more than 20 million euros in this matter, adding the cost of the Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant and the Urban Wastewater Treatment Plant, infrastructures that are carried out with the purpose of ending the problem of discharges in the region.
Making use of the speech that the island government maintains, Javier Rodríguez recalled that “from the Cabildo de Tenerife we are investing as never before in water treatment, not only urban, but also industrial. We have signed with the State the largest agreement in the history of the Cabildo, and these are no longer political commitments, they are realities. He thus alluded to the agreement signed with the state mercantile company Aguas de las Cuencas de España (Acuaes), of the Ministry for Transition and the Demographic Challenge, which contributes 170 million euros to undertake the sanitation systems of Arona Este-San Miguel, Oeste , Acentejo, Granadilla de Abona and Valle de La Orotova.
Regarding the benefits of commissioning the pretreatment plant of the Valle de Güímar industrial treatment plant, located on land in the municipality of Arafo attached to the regional polygon, the insular councilor stressed that the diversion of industrial waters to the existing filtering to start operating with the pre-treatment will generate a double benefit. “It will significantly improve the treatment received by industrial waters and will free up the space that filtering occupies today to advance in the construction of the rest of the industrial treatment plant,” said Rodríguez Medina.
Six million investment
The investment in this complex amounts to six million euros. “We want to achieve excellence, that is why the work will continue to advance until we achieve the objective that we all pursue: to end the problem of discharges that we have been suffering from for decades,” said the counselor, who explained that The forecast is that by mid-2022 “we can already be working at full capacity with this treatment plant.”
Javier Rodríguez stressed that the island government “is committed” to preventing Tenerife from being one of the regions in Europe with the highest number of sanctions for polluting. The pretreatment is already fully operational and the forecast is that by mid-2022 “we can already be working at full capacity with this treatment plant,” he clarified.
The counselor emphasized that you are working “smoothly and efficiently” in the formalization of an agreement with the representatives of the municipalities of the Güímar Valley (Arafo, Candelaria and Güímar). “The Insular Water Council will be the administration that assumes the management and exploitation of this infrastructure, but we need a regulatory framework as it is a municipal responsibility,” explained Rodríguez Medina, who hopes that in the coming months “we can have an agreement on the text of the agreement ”.
