The Lanzarote Island Council, through the Water Consortium, has designed the collaboration agreement that it will promote with the Teguise City Council to execute the project for the integral renovation of the drinking water and sanitation distribution networks of Calle Buganvillas and transverse streets of Costa Teguise, in the northwest area of the urbanization.
The president of the Institution, María Dolores Corujo, has confirmed that this new initiative in terms of hydraulic infrastructures on the island was agreed "unanimously" at the meeting of the General Assembly of the Lanzarote Water Consortium held last month. "The Island Council is responding in this way," notes the president, "to the need to create new drinking water and sanitation networks in consolidated urban spaces of Lanzarote, trying to provide viable solutions to the planning problems that may arise for the municipalities."
For his part, the Consortium's councillor, Andrés Stinga, has clarified that the hydraulic infrastructures in these streets of Costa Teguise are not operational "because the residential building planned by the developer who later handed over the urbanization to the Teguise City Council did not materialize there, from where the city council sends us the request for the provision of services."
Andrés Stinga also added that the work on structural improvements in the network "is permanent by the Water Consortium" through projects and agreements, recalling the recent agreement with the state-owned company Aguas de las Cuencas de España, S.A. (ACUAES) for the integral renovation of the Arrecife and Tías treatment plants. "This agreement will allow the renovation of the two main treatment plants on the Island." And he adds: "The management carried out by the Entity has also made possible the extension of the agreements signed for four years with the Ministry for Ecological Transition, thus saving a total of 5 million euros for the execution of sanitation works in Lanzarote, including those for the sanitation of the town of El Golfo," says the councillor.
A response to the municipal request
The competence in matters of drinking water supply and wastewater disposal corresponds to the city councils, by virtue of the provisions of the Bases of the Local Regime. But the Statutes of the Lanzarote Water Consortium make it clear that the municipalities will have the economic aid and technical advice of the Entity.
For this reason, the Teguise City Council requested - given the building growth in this area of Costa Teguise - technical and economic assistance to completely renovate the drinking water and sanitation distribution network of Calle Buganvillas and the roads transverse to it.
Likewise, the city council requested the materialization of said assistance through a collaboration agreement that the Lanzarote Island Council has now drawn up, to provide the requested services and collaborate with the correct urban development on consolidated land.
