The Tinajo City Council has called an extraordinary and urgent plenary session to make an institutional declaration and show rejection of the location of the brine outfall on the coast of La Santa: "No technician, councilor or any member of the government group has accepted or will accept this location," said the mayor, Jesús Machín.
This action belongs to the Modernization and Improvement of Irrigation in the Northwest Zone of Lanzarote project, and, as Machín recalled, both the president of the Cabildo and the president of the Government of the Canary Islands "have committed to trying to modify that point of the plan."
"We have a firm commitment to respect the environment"
From the local Consistory they have proposed that the possibility of making a filtering well be studied, replacing the outfall and avoiding these discharges: "We have a firm commitment to respect the environment, biodiversity, fauna, flora and protect our coasts," Machín remarked.
In that sense, the mayor has also assured that neither fishermen, nor surfers, nor anyone will be harmed in the development of their activity, "as some opposition councilor has demagogically stated."
This work, which has been in execution for 11 years and is now "close to seeing the light", in his opinion "is very important for the municipality" since it will solve the irrigation problem, so work will be done on this possible modification by a filtering well.
