The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, has requested the Water Consortium of Lanzarote, and the company holding the concession for the integral water cycle on the island, Canal Gestión, to proceed with the urgent regularization of the points detected in a recent report by the Government of the Canary Islands, and reported by La Voz, which cause discharges into the Charco de San Ginés.
The mayor of the capital of Lanzarote specifies that the Government of the Canary Islands has updated the census of discharges from land to sea, and in that map, published by the public company GRAFCAN, it speaks of the existence of three points in the surroundings of the Charco de San Ginés, which cause discharges of wastewater, which, according to the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Energy, are not regularized, and whose responsibility lies with the Water Consortium of Lanzarote, and its concessionaire company, Canal Gestión Lanzarote.
After that report, it has been verified that the company in charge of managing the integral water cycle of Lanzarote, Canal Gestión, discharges "urban wastewater into the Charco de San Ginés, through up to three different unauthorized drains".
Faced with this worrying situation, the mayor has urged the Water Consortium of Lanzarote and Canal Gestión to proceed "urgently to adapt these points", and prevent waste from being discharged into the sea from the sewage network that surfaces in the bottom of the water body when high tides occur.
In addition, the mayor, and direct head of the Department of Public Works, has requested the Water Consortium to carry out audits on the situation of the wastewater pumping stations (EBAR) existing in the city in case they have deficiencies that should be corrected immediately.
Yonathan de León has recalled that in the surroundings of the Charco de San Ginés there are three Ebar stations, whose maintenance is the direct responsibility of Canal Gestión.
From the Department of Beaches and Environment of the Arrecife City Council, led by councilor Davinia Déniz, requests have been registered to Canal Gestión to proceed with the cleaning of these funds, whose waste originates in the sewage network.
September, month of great tides ideal for deep cleaning of the Charco de San Ginés
From the Arrecife City Council, through the Department of the Environment, it is announced that during the next month of September there will be high tides, known in the islands as the 'Mareas del Pino', making it possible that during this cyclical period of the tides, with large low tides, cleaning shocks can be deployed to remove from the seabed of the Charco de San Ginés the numerous remains of wipes that surface with these tides, and that uncivilized people throw into the toilets.
