CAAF in the Media

 The new modules of the Gran Tarajal desalination plant generate annoying noises to the neighbors

• The mayor of Tuineje and the councilor of Aguas del Cabildo visit the facilities and the island body undertakes to seek solutions

Carlos Rodríguez, Tomás Torres and Esther Hernández.

Diario de Fuerteventura 0 COMMENTS 01/25/2021 - 18:49

A few months ago, the desalination plant of the Consorcio de Abastecimiento de Aguas a Fuerteventura (CAAF) in Gran Tarajal saw its production capacity strengthened by the urgent incorporation of machinery that allowed it to face imminently supply problems in the south of the island .

However, this is causing inconvenience to residents of the area due to "the significant noise generated by these equipment." The mayor of Tuineje, Esther Hernández, together with the councilor of Waters of the Cabildo de Fuerteventura, Carlos Rodríguez, and the councilor of Waters, Tomás Torres, have visited the desalination plant of the Consortium.

The island councilor has announced that "the new water production modules will be installed inside the plant to reduce the current noise level."

"We must bear in mind that we are facing a facility collected within the water emergency that we declared to tackle the problems of water supply in the south of the island", Carlos Rodríguez clarifies.

For her part, the mayor of Tuineje thanked "the counselor's willingness to reconcile guaranteeing the water supply with minimizing the inconvenience to the neighbors around this plant.

Hernández also highlighted "the important effort made by the Cabildo and the CAAF in improving the water supply, with the replacement of the transport network to Tiscamanita."

For the Water Councilor of the Tuineje City Council, Tomás Torres, "ending the problem of water supply in the municipality, something that we have been suffering for years, has been a priority and a claim that this City Council has continuously and repeatedly brought to the CAAF ".

More than double the production

The Gran Tarajal desalination plant went from producing around 2,000 cubic meters per day to now standing at just over 5,000, "which, together with the replacement of transport networks, such as the one that goes to the Tiscamanita deposit, in addition to the sealing and cleaning that we have done in all the storage tanks; it allows us to advance towards the guarantee of water supply in the south of Fuerteventura "

CAAF Petition

 Marianne, the VM secretary, is currently collecting names for a petition agaist the noise polution coming from CAAF water plant. If anyone wants to add their name to it, please get in touch with her or Fimax and let her know! 

AGM

 Just to let everyone know, the VM Annual General Meeting has been postponed until further notice, due to the CV19 limitations. 

New CV19 Rules

 The Tuineje City Council has also decreed this Monday, like the La Oliva City Council, a series of exceptional measures under the report of recommendations on additional restriction measures for the Fuerteventura Health Area in the face of the current epidemiological situation derived from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The measures are adopted "in accordance with the provisions of the agreement approving temporary specific measures in the area of ​​the autonomous community of the Canary Islands to face the health crisis, published in the BOC on January 9".

The measures have been decreed by the mayor Esther Hernández effectively from Monday, January 11, until next Monday, January 25, with the aim of stopping the contagion curve that the municipality of Tuineje has experienced in recent days.

Hernández has asked the population for an exercise of "individual responsibility and collective effort for the next fifteen days to regain normalcy in the municipality and stabilize the level of infections."

The decree of the mayor contemplates limitation of the freedom of movement of people at night between 10 pm and 6 am, except for essential activities.

The permanence of people both in spaces for public and private use, closed or outdoors, will be limited to cohabiting people, except in hotels and restaurants and respecting the maximum number of four users per table.

The hotel and catering establishments are also closed to the public before 10 pm, excluding cafeterias and restaurants in work centers for the exclusive use of workers.

Likewise, the number of diners per table will be four people and the service in interior areas is prohibited, excluding health centers, work centers for the use of their staff and those of tourist accommodation for the exclusive use of guests under the regime of accommodation.

Gambling casinos, bingo halls, arcades and games rooms, external betting venues and other similar venues will remain closed.

The practice of non-professional physical and sports activity is allowed in the interior areas of sports facilities and centers, with strict compliance with the usual security measures in the face of COVID-19, being prohibited the public attendance to them.

The practice of non-professional sports activity and physical exercise in the open air can be carried out individually and as long as the interpersonal safety distance of two meters can be maintained permanently.

Team sports or those practices or exercises in which the maintenance of said distance cannot be guaranteed at all times may not be practiced.

In the regular urban and metropolitan public land transport of passengers its capacity is reduced to 50 percent.

In addition, the closure of cultural centers and library is also established.

Water

 Anyone who read a post yesterday regarding Water please note that this message has now been cancelled.