The beach of Guacimeta in Playa Honda suffered a new discharge of fecal water this Monday. This is demonstrated by some photographs sent by a reader and this has been confirmed by the Councilor for Public Services of the City Council, Alexis Tejera, who recalled that "it has been happening all his life when it rains too much." "It is something that is being fixed," said the mayor, who nevertheless assured that Canal Gestión, "which is responsible," came "immediately to clean."
"The Playa Honda network is old and is unitary, the sewage and rainwater networks are together. So, when it rains a lot, the pipe that comes out of here is overloaded and when the pumps do not work well, there is a backlash effect and there is a small relief valve that is in a point of the beach that overflows, but this is contemplated in a sanitation plan, so that it does not overflow there," Tejera pointed out, in relation to the Master Plan for Arrecife and San Bartolomé prepared by the Cabildo.
In fact, according to the Councilor for Public Services, Canal Gestión is already undertaking works in this regard, specifically placing new impulsion pumps. "The work will be finished in a month. If you walk along the avenue, you will see that there are two points where there are fences closing a work, which are that," explained Alexis Tejera, who nevertheless added that another work would be missing, which they are "asking from the City Council," which "is to widen the pipe, which is dimensioned, so that when it rains and the level increases, the pumps can evacuate the waters of Playa Honda without any problem." "Because now the pipe is thinner than what is needed, since it was placed when there were 6,000 or 7,000 inhabitants and now we have double," concluded the mayor.
