Canal Gestión Lanzarote began the demolition of the old Wastewater Pumping Station (EBAR) on Portugal Street, in Arrecife, early this Thursday morning. The company will now build a new station that it estimates will be operational within a month.
This work constitutes the second phase of action "to solve the continuous problems that the pumping station located in the center of the capital of Lanzarote was causing to the residents of the area, who for decades have endured bad odors and noises as a result of its malfunction", emphasizes the Water Consortium.
At the end of 2014, Canal Gestión Lanzarote, at the request of the Water Consortium, began to execute a project to build a new pumping station, smaller in size than the existing one but with capacity for more flow, and demolish the current one, in order to give a "definitive" solution to the problems that were being suffered. The action has a budget of 605,000 euros, of which about 200,000 are contributed by the Lanzarote Water Consortium.
The work on this new pumping station is "about to be completed", they report from the Consortium, so the demolition of the old infrastructure has begun. When the works are finished, the water will begin to be pumped from the new station.
"It was our obligation"
"It was our obligation to give a definitive and forceful response to the claims of these residents who have endured serious problems for many years without being listened to. We understood that we could not continue patching, but rather tackle the problem at its root; and that is why it was decided, with the collaboration of Canal Gestión, to make a completely new pumping station, with new technology", explained the president of the Cabildo and the Water Consortium, Pedro San Ginés. "From now on, the problems suffered will become history and will no longer be endured by the residents of Portugal Street or by the rest of the citizens of Arrecife, who also suffered somewhat given that it is a station where all the Arrecife sanitation flow is received", added the president on his last visit to the works.
The Consortium explains that the old pumping station was built almost four decades ago, with "obsolete equipment", which has caused "continuous noises, vibrations and bad odors practically from the beginning of its activity."
"It should be noted that in addition to building a new, smaller pumping station with capacity for more flow, the Lanzarote Water Consortium and the Arrecife City Council have decided to address in future projects the construction of endowment spaces such as parks in the areas of the plot that will now be disused, as compensation to the residents of Portugal Street for the years of inconvenience they have suffered", they conclude.
