It is an image that is repeated every time it rains excessively in Santa Cruz, that of a waterfall falling into the sea located between the Refinery and the coastal battery. It is the spillway of the Santa Cruz Wastewater Treatment Plant, which opens every time the WWTP exceeds its capacity, which, thanks to the agreement reached between the Cabildo de Tenerife and the Santa Cruz City Council, will be channeled under the Anatolio Fuentes street, improving the existing drainage pipeline, and connecting it with an underwater pipe that will take the spill away from the coast.
The Plenary of Santa Cruz gave the green light yesterday to this agreement, which will involve an investment of 1,080,000 euros, in which the Cabildo puts 80% and the City Council, the remaining 20%.
Far from the noise of the last days about the insular support for municipal projects and only half an hour after the approval of the Plenary to the agreement, the president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín, and the councilor for Public Services, Guillermo Díaz Guerra, formalized the agreement With the signing of the document, which will allow, according to the also first deputy mayor, that the works are tendered as soon as the 2022 budget comes into force. It is expected that they will be extended by 11 months.
“With the signing of this document we are launching a priority work that will solve a historical problem for the city of Santa Cruz,” said the president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín, who also pointed out that “this investment corroborates that the island Corporation focuses in the needs of the citizens, solving complicated situations of many years, in this case notably improving the layout of the water conduction between the unification well of the discharges corresponding to the WWTP head-end reliefs, the treated water itself and the discharges from Balten and the dumping point in the sea ”.
For his part, the first deputy mayor of Santa Cruz, Guillermo Díaz Guerra, pointed out that “both actions have been necessary for years, and from the first moment there has been fluidity in the negotiation and predisposition on both sides.” The capital’s first deputy mayor added that “this is not the time to look at political colors, but rather the needs and demands of the citizens.” Díaz Guerra recalled in plenary session that the Cabildo will take over the management of the treatment plant when the expansion works are completed, “a decision that I made by co-financing this work that affects the WWTP.”
The Fencing
The agreement signed yesterday joins another, also approved in the extraordinary plenary session held yesterday, to carry out the canalization works of the El Cercado ravine, in the nucleus of El Regente, in San Andrés, and thus end the problems suffered by the neighbors of the area when there is rains. To carry out this action, which will be carried out through the Insular Water Council of Tenerife (Ciatf) and the Consistory, a budget of 1,543,505.32 euros has been foreseen. In this case, the Cabildo also puts 80%.
