The Arrecife City Council has reported this Wednesday that the area near the Guaguas Station, in the capital of Lanzarote, will recover fluidity in the circulation of vehicles in the coming days.
According to the council in a press release, the section of the Vía Medular, next to the Insular Water Station, and the adjacent street José Pereyra Galviaty, in the Titerroy neighborhood, will be reopened to traffic this week.
During this Wednesday, the state company that is carrying out the works is proceeding to resurface the section of José Pereyra Galviaty street, and the Vía Medular, in the area of access to the island bus station. It is expected that after the resurfacing, circulation will be reopened in the next 72 hours.
The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, has been in contact with the works director to find out the execution times of the works on the submarine outfall network, which serves the wastewater from Playa Honda, San Bartolomé and Arrecife, from the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), located in Montaña Mina.
The Arrecife City Council had requested the state company of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, ACUAES, to "execute the conclusion of these works more quickly." In addition, it has stated that the works have caused "severe traffic jams" on that neuralgic road.
A larger treatment plant to meet demand
The state company Acuaes began in the summer of 2023 the execution of the works of the new Arrecife submarine outfall network to meet the population growth on the island.
The improvements to the network, which are delayed due to the resistance of the soil to be drilled, will serve a population of 90,000 inhabitants (the sum of the residents in the municipalities of Arrecife and San Bartolomé). They consist of the construction of a new treatment plant, with greater treatment capacity than the current one, as well as the rehabilitation of the submarine outfall that allows the evacuation of the treated flows in the WWTP.
The new treatment plant will have a treatment capacity of 12,000 cubic meters per day of average flow compared to the current 8,000 and will be equipped with a tertiary treatment with a production capacity of regenerated water of up to 6,000 m3/day, for its reuse in agricultural uses and garden irrigation.
The action is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), according to the agreement between Acuaes and the Water Consortium, for the execution, financing and exploitation of said works.
