Ayudas de hasta 5.000 euros para conectar a red de alcantarillado
The La Laguna City Council, through the mixed company Teidagua, is keeping open a call for aid worth more than one million euros aimed at increasing the number of homes in the municipality connected to the public sewer system. These benefits are funded through a grant from the Tenerife Island Council, and the guidelines are available at the following link: https://www.teidagua.es/-/el-ayuntamiento-de-la-laguna-y-teidagua-impulsan-ayudas-para-la-conexion-a-la-red-de-alcantarillado.
The Mayor of La Laguna, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez, announced that the deadline for submitting applications will remain open until May 24th, with a maximum funding of up to 5,000 euros per household for projects. «It is crucial that the citizens access this funding line and ensure the proper treatment of their wastewater as soon as possible, contributing to reducing the environmental impact on our surroundings,» added the mayor.
On the other hand, the Councillor for Works, Infrastructure, and Accessibility of the City Council, Ángel Chinea, revealed that «a study conducted by Teidagua showed that 23% of the population in the municipality remain unconnected to the public sewage system, resulting in a significant volume of water resources that could be treated by Wastewater Treatment Plants for later use in irrigation and cleaning tasks, primarily.
The municipal Area manager also detailed that the actions that can be funded through this grant include technical inspection of facilities, septic tank sanitation, wall drilling, demolition and replacement of pavement, installation of new pipelines, construction of pumping stations, connections to the supply network, or the removal and management of waste resulting from these interventions, among other tasks.
This funding line is aimed at all citizens of La Laguna, but especially at the Northeast Region, where low percentages of connectivity to the municipal network are recorded. Looking at specific population centers, cases such as El Ramal (Tejina), with 251 wells inventoried; El Calvario (Valle de Guerra), which has 204 septic tanks; or Vernetta (Bajamar-Punta del Hidalgo), with 76 septic tanks, stand out.
Requirements for Aid Grants
Beneficiaries of this aid must have a valid contract for the property, for domestic use, with the La Laguna Water Supply municipal service. Additionally, these facilities must be located within a hundred meters of the public sewer system and excrement disposal network to which they must connect.
Finally, the property and the land where the new connection to the network will run must not be affected by any circumstances that impede the management of the necessary licenses for the execution of the works.
If the applicant does not own the property, the aid application must be accompanied by an express authorization from the property owner to proceed with the connection and carry out the necessary work. Likewise, in the case of buildings, the Owners’ Community of the same may act as the applicant, provided that it is duly constituted and that the intended connection is common for the entire building.
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