The San Bartolomé City Council denies "categorically" the information disseminated by the Lanzarote Water Consortium and Aguas de Lanzarote y La Graciosa about Calderetas street, in which the delay in the renovation of its supply network is attributed to the lack of municipal response.
The City Council assures that it has acted with "diligence from the first moment on this work and that since last June, the Consortium has been warned of the poor condition of the pipe installed on this street, requesting its replacement". The City Council regrets that a version has been conveyed to the public that "does not conform to the facts and only serves to confuse the population and the residents of the area".
The mayor of San Bartolomé, Isidro Pérez, assures that "it is false that the City Council is blocking this work. San Bartolomé has been diligent with Calderetas street, with the project for its improvement and with the residents who have been affected from minute one. It was we who warned that we were going to tender the asphalting of Calderetas and that the pipe had to be changed before. The Consortium has taken months to release its project and now it wants the delay to be the responsibility of the City Council".
The Consortium sent the City Council on November 4, for signature, the inter-administrative cooperation agreement necessary to carry out the work. On November 10, six days later and with a weekend in between, a note was published in which it assured that the renovation was pending municipal response. Between these two dates, the City Council had barely three business days to review and process the document.
"An agreement between two administrations is not signed overnight. It requires its technical and legal reports, and that is what we are doing. What is not reasonable is to take months to prepare a project and ask the San Bartolomé City Council to resolve it in three days," points out Isidro Pérez.
In this regard, the Councilor for Urban Planning, Marlene Romero, recalls that "the involvement of the San Bartolomé City Council with this work has been constant. It was the municipal administration that warned the Consortium in June of the need to replace the pipe before tendering the asphalting, who reiterated that request to the Cabildo de Lanzarote and the Water Consortium and who made it public so that the residents would know the situation.
The San Bartolomé City Council made public its request to the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the Water Consortium for the pipeline to be replaced before repaving the Calderetas section between Rubicón and Garduña streets, a municipal action with a base tender budget of 85,990.45 euros. The Council postponed its own project to avoid renewing the surface and having to lift it later due to network breakdowns, a decision that "shows that its priority has always been to resolve the underlying problem".
"We will not allow the public or the residents of Calderetas to be misled. The residents do not need administrations to blame each other. They need the pipe to be changed and the street to be fixed. The City Council will do what corresponds to it with rigor and in the shortest possible time, and we expect the same diligence from the Consortium as it demands of us," Pérez concludes.
The San Bartolomé City Council reiterates its willingness to collaborate with the Water Consortium so that the replacement of the pipe and the subsequent paving are executed in a coordinated manner and with a clear and truthful schedule that can be communicated to the residents.
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