The Arrecife City Council has reopened this Wednesday, April 1, El Reducto beach, which had been closed for swimming since last October 14, 2025, due to contamination by fecal waters in the water.
The beach has replaced the red and black flag for contamination that had been flying for five and a half months with a green one that authorizes bathing. In addition, the City Council has also removed the sign that was located at the access to the area that warned of the presence of contamination in the water.
The Lanzarote Water Consortium the company responsible for the management of the integral water cycle on the island, Canal Gestión, together with the Arrecife City Council, located last January the origin of contamination of the beach.
According to what the Water Councillor of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, Domingo Cejas, reported then, it was an old collector, more than 40 years old, which collects wastewater from several homes on Greco, Valencia streets and part of Valls de la Torre street. Apparently, this collector would have been disconnected. One of the hypotheses that the first institution was considering is that it had been disconnected during the pedestrianization works of El Reducto.
Initially, the Water Consortium considered that the source of contamination was in the area of Punta del Camello, next to the esplanade of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, where there are two unauthorized drains, managed by Canal Gestión and the responsibility of the Consortium, which discharge wastewater into the sea when the network is saturated.
After ruling out that the contamination came from this point, the possibility was raised that the contamination originated from a collector on Fred Olsen Avenue. To confirm this theory, they opened trenches in the sand of El Reducto to try to locate contaminated water. Those tests also yielded no results.
ADVANCE / PENDING EXPANSION