Tegueste’s getting some attention from the Cabildo. And not the kind that involves fiestas or a new statue in the plaza.
This time it’s the drains.
The island government has approved a project worth just under €1.7 million to improve the sewage network in several streets around Camino Viejo…the name gives it away a bit. Add that to the previous phase of works, which cost just over €1 million, and you’re looking at more than €2.5 million going into the town’s sanitation system.
Not glamorous. But necessary.
What’s actually being done
The new phase focuses on the streets that run off Camino Viejo and also part of Calle El Pino.
The works include:
- Improving the existing sewage network
- Installing a separate rainwater drainage system
- Renewing parts of the water supply network
The streets affected include Campamento, Las Cuevas, Tolentina, Francisca Rodríguez León, Petra López Pérez, Barbuzano, La Era and Guillama. They’ll also work on the upper part of Camino Viejo and a section of El Pino.
The project budget is €1,669,653.78 and the work is expected to take around 16 months.
So if you live nearby… expect some digging.
Phase one has already finished
This isn’t the first bit of work in the area.
The previous phase, costing just over €1 million, focused on improving collectors and installing a separate system for sewage and rainwater from the cemetery access road down to Camino del Brezo.
They also built an overflow system to stop the collector that handles water from Las Canteras and Pedro Álvarez from flooding further down the line.
In simple terms… when heavy rain hits, the system now has somewhere to send the excess water instead of pushing it through pipes that can’t cope.
Why it matters
Infrastructure like this is invisible when it works and a disaster when it doesn’t.
Anyone who’s lived in Spain long enough knows what happens when heavy rain meets an old drainage system. It’s usually messy and occasionally smells like something died.
According to the Cabildo, the goal of these projects is to improve water management across the island and support more sustainable environmental policies.
Which is all very sensible.
Still… if they can stop drains overflowing during the next proper downpour, most residents will be happy enough with that.
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