The Arrecife City Council has launched the construction of the new rainwater network in the area around the Cuatro Esquinas area and the surroundings of the Charco de San Ginés, through Jacinto Borges street.
The mayor of the city, and direct head of the Department of Public Works, Yonathan de León, reports that the company awarded these works has started work in the vicinity of the Cuatro Esquinas, at the request of the municipality, to synchronize the execution in the subsoil to allow to continue with an upcoming work of transformation of the urban image of Arrecife, through the eco boulevard on Pérez Galdós street, to Valterra, recently presented.
Rainwater network to prevent flooding in critical areas of the center of Arrecife
The work that is being carried out during this first semester of the year will facilitate the installation of a new rainwater network, which until now this sector of the capital of Lanzarote lacks, in the vicinity of the Charco de San Ginés where the waters that flow through Jacinto Borges, León y Castillo and Pérez Galdós streets converge, these three with a high elevation with respect to the center of Arrecife.
The action is programmed in one phase, with an investment of 1.2 million euros. The works are focused on the area known as Cuatro Esquinas, and the entire Jacinto Borges street, in the El Lomo neighborhood, bordering the bank of the Charco de San Ginés.
The works have been visited this Thursday morning by the mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, and the Minister of Public Works of the first institution, Jacobo Medina, whose department participates in the financing through the Municipal Cooperation Plans. The Island Minister of Public Works, Jacobo Medina, highlighted that "the contribution of the Municipal Cooperation plans promotes public works and solves needs in the municipalities, which as in Arrecife, the rainwater network is very necessary".
Due to the elevation of the city of Arrecife in the El Lomo area, hence its name, rainwater flows to the Cuatro Esquinas, at the same level as the sea on the bank of the Charco de San Ginés, causing flooding. The City Council, within the planned phases of creating the rainwater network, through phases, awarded the construction company Transportes y Excavaciones Tiagua, this new phase for an amount of 1,175,134.63 euros, including taxes.
Transformation of the urban image of the Cuatro Esquinas
Yonathan de León has detailed that in a planned manner the rainwater works start in this area of the city where the City Council has programmed for this second part of the mandate other important works for the renovation of the urban image of this enclave, with the modernization of the Open Commercial Area, and the cohesion of the neighborhoods with the center of the capital.
Pérez Galdós and León Castillo streets have drafted projects, and whose tenders will be undertaken during this 2025. The Arrecife City Council has financial records to undertake these works of modernization and transformation of the city center, and cohesion with the neighborhoods.
Last February, the mayor together with the vice president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Manuel Domínguez, presented in the Cuatro Esquinas the transformation work of Pérez Galdós street, where the General Directorate of Commerce of the Canary Islands Executive co-finances with a subsidy of 2 million euros.
During these next months, the City Council will close the awards of tenders in progress to increase the rainwater network, contemplated in the area of the Vía Medular and Puerto de Naos, where flooding occurs in times of heavy rain.
Collaboration of residents, merchants and drivers
The City Council requests the collaboration and understanding of residents, merchants and drivers during the execution of these works that contemplate the closure of roads for the opening of ditches in the streets, and the diversion of traffic. Part of Jacinto Borges street is already closed to traffic, and the awarded company has installed signs informing of alternative detours.
