The Arrecife City Council approved last Friday the first phase of the "Stormwater Plan Project for Portugal Street", which was commissioned by the Cabildo and will be put out to tender by the First Island Corporation.
The City Council explains that the project contemplates "the demolition and replacement of the pavement and sidewalks of the affected area, excavation, filling and compaction, a new stormwater network with connection to the existing canal, stormwater wells, a longitudinal drainage channel and new drains".
The works, which have a base bidding budget of 85,195 euros and an execution period of two months, include the section of Portugal Street, located between Blas Cabrera Topham and Paraguay, at the intersection with Doctor Fleming Street. The City Council points out that it is in that area where the stormwater collection drains connected to the network are located, and that when there is rainfall there is a collapse of the sanitation, which causes flooding of the surrounding streets.
"The City Council has not only done a huge job of cleaning drains in recent years, but in addition to all the planned works, which are many, include the stormwater network. In the case of Portugal Street, the intervention has a greater depth due to the problems that are generated in this area," says the mayor of Arrecife, Astrid Pérez.
According to the project, the sanitation network of the capital was designed "in the seventies of the last century, when the population did not reach 30,000 inhabitants". The City Council emphasizes that currently that figure is doubled, and that the problem has worsened "with the urbanization of new neighborhoods in the channels of the ravines, which causes flooding in the lower areas of the city".