The Cabildo of Lanzarote has put out to tender the restoration of the rofera of Lomo de San Andrés, in Tao (Teguise). This project is part of the Island Program for the Recovery of Degraded Spaces and, for it, recycled material from construction and demolition waste will be used for the first time on the island.
"Recovery of degraded farms in Lomo de San Andrés (Teguise)", official name of the project, has a bidding budget of 202,851.27 euros and an execution period of 5 months, being planned to be used to recover a surface of 11,418 square meters.
The call for the open procedure for awarding the contract was published last Friday in the Official Gazette of the Province (BOP) of Las Palmas, and the project has favorable reports from the departments of Environment, Island Plan for Territorial Planning and Heritage of the Cabildo of Lanzarote.
The restoration of the rofera of Lomo de San Andrés, which is located on land owned by the Island Corporation, is the first of the projects for the recovery of degraded natural spaces in which recycled materials from construction and demolition waste will be used.
Double objective
For the specific case of the rofera of Lomo de San Andrés, 48,156.84 cubic meters are estimated as necessary to carry out the restoration. The project is one of the 12 included in the Island Program for the Recovery of Degraded Spaces, which in turn is included in the progress of the Special Territorial Plan for Waste Management.
The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Pedro San Ginés, who directly depends on the Waste Area of the Island Corporation, has stated that "this restoration project responds to a double objective: on the one hand, to recover a degraded natural space, such as an abandoned rofera; and on the other hand, to dispose of waste and recycled construction material, which until recently, specifically the summer of 2010, was deposited in the Arrecife landfill without being valued, that is, without being able to be recovered or reused".
