The mayor of Arrecife, Eva de Anta, has attributed the "disastrous consequences" after the rain that fell this Thursday in the capital to the "incomprehensible negligence" of Canal Gestión. "The negligence of Canal Gestión and the Consortium have once again caused Arrecife to be flooded with sewage", she stated in a statement.
According to De Anta, "despite the fact that on this occasion several company operators supervised and worked before and during the rains, several streets were flooded again with sewage, which corroborates that it is an irresponsibility of many years where the maintenance of sewage and sanitation has been nil." "As mayor of this city, I cannot allow the smell outside the Santa María de los Volcanes school to be unbearable", commented Eva de Anta after visiting the place.
The mayor affirms that "despite the efforts of the personnel from the early hours of the morning when the yellow alert for rain was activated, the consequences were the same again: bad smell, sewage due to the overflow of sewers, passersby balancing to cross the street".
Demands action from the Consortium in the face of Canal's "permanent inability"
"We cannot allow this", Eva de Anta pointed out, who recalled that Arrecife plans to ask the Water Consortium for a technical study to assess the degree of maintenance and the need to improve the city's sewage network and to take corresponding actions against Canal Gestión "in the face of its permanent inability to provide a dignified and adequate service to the population of Arrecife".
"The Arrecife City Council has transferred the powers in water and sanitation to a Consortium that, in practice, is controlled by the Cabildo de Lanzarote, which holds more than fifty percent of its ownership, therefore I ask for seriousness with the residents of Arrecife", demanded the mayor, who recalled that this Thursday precipitations of up to 15 liters per square meter were expected in one hour, "although finally in Arrecife it did not rain as much as expected".
