The Arrecife City Council has tendered the new irrigation network for green areas, which will serve the current parks and wooded areas, and will allow the irrigation of the new parks and areas that the Municipal Government, led by the mayor, Yonathan de León, has in planning.
Until now, the current network is not operational, has many shortcomings, and does not cover the current or future needs to maintain the green areas in the capital of Lanzarote on a regular basis. The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, has detailed that with this tender the City Council plans to "triple the current trees and new green areas in the city's neighborhoods." With the new Supplementary Plan, which Arrecife has already initially approved, the city will increase the green areas with 280,000 m2 for new parks.
Five ecoboulevards, more trees and better gardens
Yonathan de León has advanced that from the City Council "the integral transformation of five arteries where five eco boulevards with long green walks will be created is already planned." One of them, with the first phase, has already materialized last year with the remodeling of a section of Calle Manolo Millares, which will be expanded in a second phase whose technical project is in its final drafting phase.
In a planned manner, the Parks and Gardens Area, directed by the councilor Roberto Herbón, will have a new network that covers the current and future needs to transform the green image of Arrecife "towards a city with more shade and more sustainable."
The Arrecife City Council has published in the Contracting Platform of the Sector the official tender for the "Improvement work of the regenerated water network for irrigation of the municipality of Arrecife", allocating an investment, from the Department of Parks and Gardens, directed by the councilor Roberto Herbón, of more than 800,000 euros.
Interested companies have until September 29 to submit their economic and technical proposals for this new work, with a base budget for bidding of 836,570.05 euros.
Technical details of the new irrigation network
According to the technical project, prepared by an agricultural technical engineer, the central axis of this new irrigation network will start at the old Arrecife WWTP, located on the San Bartolomé road next to the ring road. In this way, it will cover the most populated areas of Arrecife, residents in the neighborhoods of Argana Alta and Argana Baja. In that area of the old WWTP, a main network, the distribution manholes in the main network with secondary, and the conditioning of the fertigation and chemigation room will start.
The technical report specifies that "the city of Arrecife lacks an irrigation network that meets the needs of the green areas of the city. The purpose of this project is to supply regenerated quality water to the vast majority of parks, gardens and other green areas of the city, where the network does not currently reach, there is no flow or there is no pressure." The network will run along the perimeter from the Arrecife Ring Road, from where all the irrigation branches will be distributed to the current gardens and parks, plus the new projected areas.
Robert Herbón has emphasized that, with the construction of this new irrigation network, whose execution period is estimated at six months, "the planting of trees and green areas can be increased, as is the central objective of his Area to give a good change to the urban image of Arrecife, where until now, the citizens demand to have more trees."
Robert Herbón recalled that the construction of the new submarine outfall network and the expansion of the flow of the WWTP in Montaña Mina (works in execution with an investment of more than 13 million euros) will allow us to "have raw material to irrigate, which is the purified water, together with a new irrigation network to reach the current and future green areas."