The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, the councilor of the Water Consortium, Domingo Cejas, and the director of Canal Gestión Lanzarote, David González, met this Wednesday at the town hall to discuss the situation of the sanitation impulsion network that channels sewage to Montaña Mina. Arrecife has insisted that "it is obsolete" and that "due to its defective state, it has registered multiple breakdowns, seven of them in these last months, generating sewage spills on public roads in this area of the capital of Lanzarote."
Thus, in the meeting between the Arrecife City Council, the Water Consortium and Canal Gestión, it was agreed to install a new impulsion network to the Montaña Mina treatment plant. Thus, according to the town hall, "this new pipe will run parallel to the road that connects Arrecife with San Bartolomé", although the San Bartolomé City Council was not present at the meeting. The current one, which runs through the subsoil of several streets of Argana Alta, will remain as a secondary one and its use will be, in the future, for exceptional situations.
The capital's mayor demanded that both organizations take measures against continuous breakdowns of a section of the sanitation network that runs through the streets Tenderete and Tajaraste, in the Argana Alta neighborhood, which suffered two major breakdowns during the past week. The competences of the integral water cycle, including those of sanitation, correspond to the Water Consortium, which has ceded them to the concessionaire company Canal Gestión Lanzarote. "The City Councils cannot carry out new works on the sewage network, which is the exclusive responsibility of the Water Consortium," the town hall said in a statement.
The mayor thanked the willingness shown by the councilor of the Consortium, Domingo Cejas, to find a solution to the permanent breakdowns of this impulsion network, created with a fiber pipe, and with about 30 years of age.
Thus, he assured that "Canal Gestión can only carry out repair works", while "the new installations or replacements of the current networks correspond to the Water Consortium", as Domingo Cejas reaffirmed this Wednesday to the media, after the meeting in the mayor's office of Arrecife. The councilor Domingo Cejas ratified that from the mayor's office of Arrecife it had been demanding to look for an answer to these breakdowns.
Likewise, the Assembly of the Consortium convened for this Thursday, April 3, will agree on the drafting of the project to create a new network that will run along the road from Arrecife to San Bartolomé, according to Domingo Cejas. The Consortium meeting will be at 11:00 am in the Cabildo Insular.
After the drafting of the project, the new work will be tendered to install this impulsion network in the easement area of the road that connects Arrecife with San Bartolomé. Once the water reaches the treatment plant, it will be treated in the Montaña Mina WWTP, which is currently being expanded.