The Municipal Government has put out to tender the installation and creation of the new irrigation network with regenerated water, which will be used to create more green areas and double the number of trees in the capital of Lanzarote.
The Public Sector Contracting Platform has published this new tender from the Arrecife City Council. Through the Department of Parks and Gardens, led by Councilor Roberto Herbón. The tender for the “Work for the improvement of the regenerated water network for irrigation in the municipality of Arrecife (modified project 2023)” has been published, with an investment amounting to 1,652,835.01 euros. Companies that are interested in participating in this contest have until November 4 to register their technical and economic proposals.
The tender for this work, integrated into the powerful municipal investment plan that Mayor Yonathan de León is promoting, together with his Government group, has been published since October 16.
Arrecife will increase green areas and provide trees to the entire city
The mayor has announced that his priority, during this term, will be focused on the neighborhoods of Arrecife. To this end, the Department of Works, also under the direct direction of Yonathan de León, has several projects underway to modernize the roads and public spaces of the city where shade areas and trees will be provided to all these roads. "For the maintenance of these new green areas, the channeling of treated water for irrigation is required to cover the entire municipality, which until now lacks an irrigation network in many areas of the island's capital," he explains.
Arrecife has extensive modernization plans underway in several neighborhoods, such as Tinasoria, and soon in Argana Alta and Baja, which will give a great change in its urban image with the construction of new sidewalks and public spaces, where numerous trees will be planted to provide the roads with shade areas and create "beautiful, well-kept and with a sustainable and green image" neighborhoods.
In addition to making it possible for the irrigation network to reach these areas of the city, the Department of Parks and Gardens has planned for these coming months the renovation of existing garden areas, and to increase the green area of Arrecife with tree plans, which will cover the well-known deficit of shade areas that characterize, until now, the entire city center and its neighborhoods.
Jointly, the Areas of Public Works and Parks and Gardens have several initiatives underway, with approved projects and guaranteed financing, which are awaiting authorization from Coasts to be able to undertake these actions. The José Ramírez Cerdá Park and the Theme Park, two of the great lungs of the Arrecife maritime front - which are located on land reclaimed from the sea - are awaiting resolutions from Coasts. "The City Council has repeatedly asked Coasts for speed with these mandatory authorizations to tender these works," he declares.
The Arrecife City Council has reported that part of the financing for the execution of the irrigation work in the city comes from the Municipal Cooperation funds coordinated by the Public Works Area of the Cabildo, under the management and direction of the vice president and councilor Jacobo Medina.
Mayor Yonathan de León, together with the vice president and councilor of Public Works of the Cabildo, Jacobo Medina, and the second deputy mayor and councilor of Parks and Gardens, Roberto Herbón, visited this week the well-known Parque de los Pinos, in the Titerroy neighborhood, a green space that will benefit from this new irrigation network that the capital City Council already has out to tender.
The city of Arrecife has made progress in planting trees during this first year of term. The transformations of Tenderete, Portugal streets, and the sections of Canalejas, Avenida Fred Olsen and Manolo Millares have made it possible for these roads to have new tree areas, in whose execution of works the drip irrigation network has been installed.