National Parks has formalized the temporary concession to the Lanzarote Water Consortium of the surface of 2,441 square meters where the two deposits of La Mareta are located, in La Graciosa. This concession is free of charge, because "it does not involve any economic use", they point out from the Cabildo. It will be valid for 25 years, extendable for two further periods of 25 years.
This concession seeks to "speed up the conservation, maintenance and sanitary control actions that the Consortium carries out on these deposits", they emphasize from the Corporation. The deposits have a total capacity of 2,000 cubic meters of water for human consumption.
The president of the Cabildo and also president of the Lanzarote Water Consortium, Pedro San Ginés, has highlighted the importance of this concession: "It will speed up the actions carried out by the Consortium on these deposits of water for human consumption, as it will no longer have to carry out the bureaucratic procedures involved in requesting the corresponding prior permission from National Parks each time it wanted to act on the deposits".
Cleaning, disinfection, channeling and distribution of the water supply
The actions that the Lanzarote Water Consortium usually carries out in these deposits refer to their cleaning, disinfection, regulation, channeling and distribution of the stored water supply to other deposits.
La Graciosa also has another deposit of 700 cubic meters, in Caleta de Sebo, which supplies water to the more than 700 subscribers that Canal Gestión Lanzarote, concessionaire of the integral water treatment, has registered in the Eighth Island.
The request for this administrative concession is based on an agreement adopted on September 5, 2014 by the General Assembly of the Lanzarote Water Consortium, which decided to address National Parks, the body to which the land where these deposits are located is attached.