The Arrecife City Council has closed the public restroom located near the Parador de Turismo, given the deplorable state it was in. The Councilor for Tourism, Commerce and Consumption, Rafael Juan González, has explained that this chemical toilet was bought "a long time ago" and was "very expensive", since it cost more than 40,000 euros. Despite this, no one in the City Council knows how to handle it and, therefore, maintain it.
In Arrecife, there were two bathrooms of this type, which cost more than 40,000 euros each. One of them was located in the Islas Canarias park, but it was closed some time ago by the City Council also due to its poor condition. Last week, the PP denounced the "disgusting" state of the only public restroom in Arrecife, installed near the Parador de Turismo, and the City Council has also decided to close it.
Rafael Juan González learned this Thursday of the "very expensive" price of this chemical toilet, which was not acquired in this legislature and, he believes, not in the previous one either. "It is a very interesting chemical toilet, because it self-cleans and has an electronic mechanism. The problem is that no one knows how to maintain it, no one knows how it works and it is quite deteriorated," the mayor admitted on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero.
"We will have to convert them into normal bathrooms"
In the City Council, they are looking for the catalog of this chemical toilet to find out how to restore it. If they don't get it, "we will have to convert it into normal bathrooms, into traditional bathrooms, and find someone to clean them more often," the mayor said.
The councilor has assured that this bathroom is "ideal because it is electronic, it closes by itself and self-cleans", but it requires specific maintenance and, for the moment, there is no City Council staff "trained or with a training course" to know how it works. "We are in contact with the company to see if it is worth fixing it, because there is certainly no capacity to buy a bathroom of that economic amount," said Rafael Juan González.
