The Island Water Council of Lanzarote has received the channeling works of surface runoff and improvement of drainage in the area of La Degollada, in the municipality of Yaiza. These works, carried out in recent months, have had a budget of 49,262 euros financed with own funds from the Council.
The project, carried out by the company Rehabilitaciones y Construcciones Sanabria SL, has had as its main objective to channel rainwater that, due to the orography of the area, directly affects the accesses to the adjacent farms. Among the actions carried out, the regularization of the transverse slope of the road, the underpinning and construction of delimiting stone walls and the conditioning of the road with compacted granular material stand out. All this, in order to avoid floods.
The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort, has stressed the importance of this intervention, since it is a fundamental work to protect the farms and accesses of the area against the effects of rain, "also guaranteeing the safety of residents and farmers who depend on these roads", he pointed out.
The Minister of Water, Domingo Cejas, explained during the visit to the area that he made with his technical team this Friday, that the completion of the works "not only solves historical problems of the area, but also prevents future conditions caused by runoff." Cejas also recalled that the project adds to the numerous interventions carried out in this mandate by the Island Water Council, "small and useful actions with which we facilitate the life of the neighborhood." For his part, the mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, thanked the counselor for the execution of the project and expressed his willingness to continue collaborating in future projects in hydraulic matters that affect the southern municipality.
Ensure access to farms
The work of channeling runoff and improving drainage in the area of La Degollada has included the construction of a careful 200-meter-long exposed masonry wall, the clearing and cleaning of 200 linear meters of road, and the clearing with compacted granular material in a volume of 210 cubic meters.
La Degollada, located in the Fena Valley, is especially vulnerable to runoff during periods of rain, generating landslides and flooding that affect both access roads and adjacent farms. With this intervention, the flow of water has been properly channeled, significantly reducing the associated risks.
One more intervention by the Water Council
The work of channeling surface runoff and improving drainage in the area of La Degollada is one more of the projects to improve the hydraulic infrastructures of the island carried out by the Island Water Council of Lanzarote in recent months with the aim of guaranteeing the safety, well-being and sustainability of water resources in different municipalities.
Thus, last September 2024, the Cabildo of Lanzarote received the work of the project to adapt and improve the security elements of the Mala dam, works commissioned by the Council to install a new fence on the upper wall of the dam and to also replace the doors (5) of access to the two existing galleries. The works were awarded for 154,991 euros.
A few weeks earlier, the Island Water Council completed the conditioning and improvement works of the Órzola ravine, in the municipality of Haría. The works, budgeted at 73,221 euros, managed to correct the deterioration of this important channel that runs between farms and flows into the sheltered area of the Port of Órzola.
In summer, the entity had already promoted the integral cleaning of the final section of the Guacimeta Ravine, in Playa Honda, to avoid floods or the massive dragging of materials during the rainy seasons in this natural channel that flows into the southern slope of the town.