A "breakdown", the cause of having to break the Las Cucharas promenade

"It's not that we've been breaking to place pipes that have been left behind," said the Councilor for Works of the City Council of Teguise, Eugenio Robayna, who explained what happened.

March 22 2021 (20:56 WET)
Works on the Las Cucharas promenade
Works on the Las Cucharas promenade

A "breakdown" has been the cause of having to break an area of the Las Cucharas promenade in Costa Teguise, according to the Councilor for Roads and Works of Teguise, Eugenio Robayna. "It's not that we've been breaking to place pipes that have been left behind," he said on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero.

According to the councilor, what has happened is that a part of the sanitation collector has been "obstructed", something that he considers to be a consequence of the pandemic. "It's incredible that Covid also gets into the works", he pointed out. And, he pointed out that since most of the hotels are closed, "the pipes and collectors do not run" or "run very little".

"When the pipes are not used or are used very little, what runs through there becomes solid and when it becomes solid they become obstructed", he pointed out, noting that "it already happened in the Sands Beach" and that is why the bad smells. "If water doesn't run, it's like the bathroom of a house, that if you don't flush a cistern, there will be a bad smell", he adds. 

Although the collector "passes through the entire coast, from the Hotel Las Salinas to the Casa del Rey", the breakdown has only affected the Las Cucharas promenade. As Eugenio Robayna detailed, Canal Gestión already put "a camera through the pipes" and effectively found "a part that was totally obstructed". Now, this company will be in charge of the arrangement. "This is paid for by Canal Gestión and they have to leave it the same", he pointed out, stating that he will be "very attentive" to ensure that this is the case.

In addition, the Councilor for Roads and Works of Teguise has pointed out that the City Council plans a project of 1.4 million euros to "take another collector from Los Zocos and put it through Avenida de Las Palmeras", with the aim of "easing that collector on the coast". 

Likewise, he has stated that there is also a project of four million euros to change the entire coastal collector, "although for the moment that work is not going to be done". "We are going to insist with the work of taking a collector through the outside", he stated. "With that I think we already solved it", he concluded. 

 

Other sanitation projects

On the other hand, although this has not been the case of what happened on the Las Cucharas promenade, the Councilor for Works has justified the fact of why sometimes roads are paved and then the pipes are put in that "sometimes" the money for sanitation "comes late". 

In this regard, he pointed out that the City Council also has a project of 12 million euros to expand the treatment plant next to the Costa Teguise golf course and another, of seven million, to improve "the sanitation of all of Tahíche".  Thus, with the other projects planned in Costa Teguise, a total investment of around 25 million is planned.

"But that money comes late, that money has to be sought in Europe, in the Canary Islands, in the Government in Spain". "And many times you have the euros to make the asphalt and you can't wait for that money to come, those 25 million euros, and what is often done is to asphalt.  And of course it's badly done, but if you don't spend the money that comes first, you lose it too, that's the problem", he defended. 

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