The Arrecife City Council, through the Department of Public Works, has launched a new project this April to provide the city with a stormwater drainage network that will minimize flooding on public roads during periods of heavy rain.
This new municipal work is being carried out on a stretch of Vía Medular and Puerto de Naos, a zone until now critical due to rainwater flooding. The works were awarded for 1,378,430.94 euros, bringing the total to almost five million euros for rainwater-related actions that are being executed - or are close to being tendered - during this term by the Municipal Government led by Mayor Yonathan de León.
A storm tank for 3,000 tons
With this new work, the new stormwater network will be built in the section of the Vía Medular from the roundabout near the Valterra Health Center, to the accesses to the Port of Naos, next to the Brotherhood of Fishermen of San Ginés. The works, which will continue until next winter, foresee the underground construction of a storm tank, 50 meters long, and with a capacity for more than 3,000 tons, the equivalent of about 300 tanker trucks. This area, included in areas sensitive to flooding from rain, originates from land reclaimed from the sea with the construction of the port area. There, the primitive pier of Porto Naos is located.
The Arrecife City Council has had, for the financing of this new work, the support of the Ministry of Public Works of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, directed by the minister Jacobo Medina.
The mayor, Yonathan de León, and the island councilor for Public Works, Jacobo Medina, have visited the start of these works in the Puerto de Naos area. As is known, the island capital lacks a rainwater drainage network in many of its streets and public spaces, and during rainy seasons, the water is evacuated through the sanitation network.
Arrecife has several works underway to increase the stormwater network
Yonathan de León has detailed that this work on the Vía Medular is added to the phase, already under construction, to minimize flooding in the surroundings of Cuatros Esquinas and Charco de San Ginés. For both works, the City Council has allocated from the island plans nearly three million euros, to which will be added upcoming tenders in the surroundings of the Titerroy Health Center and Cruz Roja (Vía Medular roundabout) and the expansion of drains in the neighborhoods of Maneje, Argana Alta and Titerroy, through the Insular Water Council, with a direct subsidy from the Canary Executive for almost 800,000 euros.
The island councilor of Public Works, Jacobo Medina, highlighted that from his Department, collaboration and support are offered to the Local Corporations in the execution of these works, which, like the rainwater network, are of supramunicipal interest that will allow the evacuation of rainwater through a new network.
The mayor has underlined that the city "prepares its rainwater network to minimize rainwater, with the upcoming tenders for the modernization of several streets where it is planned to intervene in the subsoil to provide a rainwater network, as in the second phase of Manolo Millares street, or the integral renovation of León and Castillo streets (from Cuatro Esquinas to Velázquez) or Pérez Galdós Street, between the Vía Medular crossroads and the Charco de San Ginés area, in Cuatro Esquinas".
Currently, the Department of Public Works has underway the new storm drain network in Pérez Galdós street and the Four Corners area, and the transformation and modernization of the interior streets of the Tinasoria neighborhood, which include a new storm drain network and the expansion of points with drains.
Improvement of public roads in the neighborhoods of Arrecife with new stormwater network
The mayor, Yonathan de León, has detailed that, according to the deadlines established in the official tenders, this second semester of 2026 will see the tendering of those planned works with trench openings and pipe installations, as well as storm drains and surface water evacuations through the provision of gullies at the roadside, along with the execution of the storm water pumping main, in the central area of Cuatros Esquinas, currently underway.
After these works, the affected roads will be asphalted. The City Council has planned for the actions of the municipal resurfacing plan affecting these streets to begin after the underground pipe laying is concluded.
