The Popular Group in the Arrecife City Council criticizes the "lack of foresight" of the Council when carrying out "basic and fundamental tasks such as cleaning sewers and drains to prevent them from overflowing." Specifically, it criticizes that "the only solution" to the floods in Arrecife is the distribution of sandbags.
"It was two days ago, when forecasts indicated the arrival of a storm, when the City Council decided to hire three people to carry out the cleaning tasks, which is totally inadmissible because it is the abc to avoid the regrettable images that are repeated in the city every year," they point out from the party.
The popular representatives regret that once again the capital of the island "has exposed the shortcomings and the deficit of infrastructures and rainwater pipes that it has been dragging for decades."
"Already last January the Cabildo granted the City Council a subsidy of almost 300,000 euros for various improvement works and cleaning and maintenance of drains, but to this day no progress has been made or anyone hired," says the municipal spokesperson, Dácil Garcías.
"It has settled into monotony and resignation"
"It would seem that the government group of Arrecife has settled into monotony and resignation in the face of a problem that can only be solved by giving absolute priority to the planned rainwater works, in addition to carrying out correct maintenance and cleaning of sewers and drains," they maintain from the PP.
The party's councilors, who were touring the city this Wednesday and detecting incidents, highlight the "impotence" felt by residents and merchants in the face of these episodes "which unfortunately have become the never-ending story of the city of Arrecife."
"There are times when meteorological phenomena are very virulent and escape any forecast, but it is unforgivable that floods continue to occur that are avoidable because the homework was not done at the time." "Faced with efficient management, it is regrettable that the only alternative that the City Council proposes to citizens is the distribution of 2,000 bags of sand," they say from the party..