The Lanzarote Island Water Council (CIAL) has responded to the request of the mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, who asked the institution to channel the ravines on the periphery in order to avoid floods, after the rains that flooded the capital of Lanzarote and Costa Teguise last weekend. The Council has reminded the municipal president that the management of the "urban rainwater network" corresponds "exclusively to the municipalities."
In a press release issued this Tuesday, the island institution has indicated that its functions include "the management and control of the public hydraulic domain" and the channels."
Likewise, it has added that "on the slopes and scattered areas of the upper part" of the municipality "there is no public hydraulic domain" in which the Government of the Canary Islands, the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the Island Water Council "can act".
To which it has highlighted that this space, being public land of private ownership, "does not allow the execution of hydraulic works", so in order to carry out these works there must be "a change of use" in the General Urban Planning Plan of Arrecife and "incorporate it into its public assets".
In another sense, the Island Council has taken the opportunity to thank the Security and Emergency Consortium of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the town councils "for the work carried out during and after" the rains last Saturday.
Finally, it has assured that it will "continue working" with the different administrations for "the cleaning and maintenance of ravine channels", as well as for everything related to the Integral Water Cycle of Arrecife.
