During this past morning, there has been, again, a break in the sewage network that runs through Tajaraste street, in the Argana Alta neighborhood, in Arrecife. In this area, there have been in the last two weeks three consecutive breaks in that network, under the maintenance of Canal Gestión Lanzarote, the company that has been assigned the responsibilities of the integral water cycle on the island.
The Arrecife City Council has demanded that Canal Gestión Lanzarote provide an external audit on the situation of the sewage network in the capital of Lanzarote, where the maintenance works, the breaks and damages, and the investments made, if any, in that maintenance, which by law this company has assigned after the direct transfer of the Water Consortium of Lanzarote, are specified.
The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, and direct head of the Department of Public Works, has recalled that Canal Gestión charges along with the household water bill, a "sewerage fee", which is intended to cover the integral maintenance of the sewage network in all the nuclei of Lanzarote, where it exists. The entire capital of Lanzarote has a sewage network, and the responsibilities for its repair and maintenance correspond to Canal Gestión, due to the transfer made from the Water Consortium of Lanzarote.
Yonathan de León demands from Canal Gestión that, with speed, provide this audit that allows knowing the supposed maintenance works carried out by Canal Gestión since it assumed these full responsibilities in the entire sewage network in the municipality.
From the Arrecife City Council, "the anger of the citizens who are seeing before their eyes that in addition to the breaks in the water supply networks on the island, causing continuous water cuts in the supply to homes and agricultural farms, damages and breaks in the subsoil of the capital are now joining, which are also affecting the sewage network" is shared. The serious breaks generate landslides or holes in the public road, affecting the mobility of vehicles and harming citizens, where the exclusive responsibility for that network lies with Canal Gestión Lanzarote.
