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In the three days that go up to Wednesday, the truth is that the water continues to flow through the pipes of the 16 affected paymentsalthough the drop in pressure causes homes or establishments without adequate pumping devices to cause the jet to come out more or less sluggish, as was the case at midday at the Asador Grill Montaña Alta.
Small town, big hell
In the village, Mentor José Reyes, president of the Consortium of Irrigators of the Northwest of Gran Canaria-“that man who is going to leave us without water”-, is followed by “I’m going to save the comment”, as well as the names and surnames of the respondents themselves, following the premise of the small town, big hell, in which “we don’t know what will happen in the coming weeks”, when consumption increases.
The supply continues in the 16 payments in the area thanks to a transfer of ten vats per day
In other points of the payment, life is observed with more pause, with the perspective that the years give, with elegance and without losing composure. This is the case of José Rodríguez, 82, who commands the Comercial Domínguez establishment, founded no less than in the year of the Lord of 1918, “but that was not me”as emphasized by Don José himself.
The water has never failed
He knows that the press stopcock hangs over the town, and at the moment he doesn’t seem particularly concerned, in fact he doesn’t even have drums, “because the water has never failed here,” not even when they didn’t even have pipes yet. «When we were little we went to look for it with bernegales at the Fuente Bermeja, and to wash in the ravine, and once or twice a month, to bathe, also down there».
Over the course of living, the Fuente Bermeja was intubated. The midlands were being perforated like a Gruyère cheese, and the springs dried up at the same speed at which a supply network was created. “And now that we are used to the water coming out of the spout, there are no more sources to turn to if necessary.”
From there the new bustle of vats that has been mounted by the intricacies that lead from the coast to the more than 900 meters of altitude where the municipal deposit is located, Just a few hundred meters above the town, an infrastructure managed by Canaragua, the company that bid for the supply in Guía.
Up the road, regarding ten vats go up a day that pour into the regulatory system 200 cubic meters per day, “almost what is eaten for what is served”, as illustrated by the head of the service, Rafael del Castillo, but with a slight decrease in the total stored, which makes all the means at their disposal to avoid the bankruptcy of the mechanism.
It only affects households
Added to this hustle and bustle is the water provided by another supplier that until the time of the capsize provided 30 percent of the flows that provide water to some 1,070 meters throughout the area. In this sense It must be emphasized that the problem, for the moment, only affects householdssince farmers resort to other sources to guarantee their risks.
Some neighbors show their concern for the coming weeks
To that second front is added a third. That of the advanced pumping network of the Guian town, and which is regarding to manage to raise desalinated water to the very town of Montaña Alta de Guía through a ‘ladder’ with six pumping stations equipped with powerful pumps capable of disrupting the course of a ravine towards the heights.
Pumping
Gustavo Rodríguez, foreman of Canaragua in Guía, supervised this Wednesday morning with an important crew of media and personnel, the new Stormwater Pumping Station (EBAP) of Tres Cruceswhich is part of the first stretch of desalinated water delivery to Montaña Alta, which has been carried out with a budget of 830,000 euros.
Rodríguez puts the station’s two pumps to the test by injecting them with water from a tank for a long time in the morning. When he gives it a buck, the machinery picks up speed, capable of driving up to 20,000 cubic meters a month. Now there is only one left to start in Bascamao, and a third in Montaña Alta so that, before the end of the year, the river forms.
The silence of José Reyes
The neighborhoods, estates and hamlets affected by the closure of the supply by Bascamao, although to a lesser extent, Risco de la Aguililla, Casa del Queso, the entire town of Montaña Alta, Lomo de la Raya, Junquillo and Verdejo, Lomo from La Palma, Aguacilejo, El Marqués, El Palmital, Lomo Guzmán, Santa Cristina, Lomo Vergara, Desagüaderos, Lomo Barranquillo Frío and Hoya del Pedregal. According to the president of the Guía Corporation, Pedro Rodríguez, the cut in supply to the municipal network by José Reyes is due to the refusal of the municipal plenary session to mediate between Reyes and the Insular Water Council for alleged debts with this second entity, and for the opening of a disciplinary file for an amount of 60,000 euros by the City Council once morest Reyes for exceeding a municipal license to build a raft, in which he extracted more land than expected, in works in which he also it ended up demolishing a stretch of highway that leads from Bascamao to Montaña Alta. That highway still shows a collapse that leaves it inoperative, and the works are completely stopped, as this newspaper was able to verify yesterday. For all these reasons, both the mayor and the president of the Cabildo, Antonio Morales, describe Reyes’s attitude as “blackmail”, while he prefers to remain silent. | JJJ
