The Department of Public Works of the Arrecife City Council is installing in several areas of the Argana Alta neighborhood new gullies to improve the drainage of rainwater.
The mayor of the city and direct head of the Department of Public Works, Yonathan de León, visited this Wednesday the works that are being executed directly with workers and machinery from the City Council.
Yonathan de León has taken the opportunity to inform the residents of Argana Alta that to these new storm drains will be added a network that will be executed in the coming months with an investment close to 800,000 euros.
Works to mitigate the effects of the rains in Arrecife
The mayor details that in April of last year the Government of the Canary Islands, in its Governing Council held in Arrecife, approved allocating a budget of one million euros for works to mitigate the effects of rainfall on the island of Lanzarote. Of that amount, which has been transferred to the Insular Water Council, nearly 800,000 euros will be allocated for the city of Arrecife. The Arrecife City Council has already granted the mandatory inter-administrative cooperation for the execution of the installation of storm drains.
The council has informed that the Insular Water Council will tender these actions that will be focused on about twenty streets in the neighborhoods of Argana Alta, Maneje and Titerroy. The mayor has stressed that the placement of these storm drains in these points of the city aims to minimize the effects of the rains, which, in very strong episodes, drag rainwater from the ravines in Montaña Mina, Zonzamas and Maneje (in the high areas of the capital) towards the interior of the capital.
Thus, those 20 streets where action will be taken by the Insular Water Council, are located mainly in the neighborhood of Argana Alta and others in Maneje and Titerroy.
Streets where new storm drains will be installed
The actions, once the works contracting process is put out to tender, will be carried out in the following public roads of Arrecife: Tanganillo, Trillo Street-Road to Los Invernaderos, Los Geranios Avenue Iguazú Street, in the Maneje neighborhood, Tenderete Street, Antonio Machado Street, Taro Street, Saltona Street, Rancho de Pascua Street, Alejo Carpentier Street, Jorge Luis Borges Street, Buero Vallejo Street, and Hermanos Álvarez Quintero Street (Titerroy),
Finally, Mayor Yonathan de León has confirmed to the residents of Argana that, in the fourth phase of the Municipal Resurfacing Plan, already awarded, the resurfacing of the streets of Argana Alta is contemplated, and that, in a planned manner, once the installation of the new storm drains and the opening of trenches in the subsoil are completed, these roads, which have been in poor condition for several decades, will be resurfaced.
