The subdelegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas, made an institutional visit to the Concello de Padrón on Friday in which she highlighted, coinciding with World Water Day, “the commitment of the Government for the digitization and efficient management of water resources”.
The deputy delegate, who was received by the mayor, Anxo Rei, and other members of the municipal corporation, highlighted in this regard the 7.4 million euros that the Government allocates through the Recovery Plan to the improvement of the drinking water treatment station (ETAP) of Padrón that serves more than 90,000 people on the northern margin of the Arousa estuary. This action is carried out by the company Espina & Delfín, which was also represented in the visit by its director of Aguas services, Juan José Somoza.
For María Rivas, this action “is a clear example that the money of the Government Recovery Plan reaches all the concellos and is called to transform for the better the life of its neighbors.”
The subdelegate explained that, with these improvements, the Padrón treatment station will increase its capacity from the 450 liters per second (l/s) it currently supplies to 630 l/s, which will allow to offer greater guarantees of supply of drinking water to the 10 municipalities of the right margin of the estuary that are connected to the system: the Coruñeses of Boiro, Dodro, A Pobra, Rianxo, Ribeira, and the Padrón itself, to which the pontevedreses of Catoira, Pontecesures, Valga and Aragarcsa must be added.
He also recalled that Espina & Delfín, the firm that executes the works, was awarded the PERTE of digitization of the water cycle. In total, it received about 7 million euros from the Government Recovery Plan for a project of 12 million euros that benefits nine Galician municipalities, three of them in the province of A Coruña (Cerceda, Coirós and Negreira), and that aims to digitize the supply systems to obtain data and analysis in real time and thus efficiently manage a scarce resource such as water. “Thanks to PERTE, Espina & Delfín will be able to carry out total digitization in municipalities that otherwise could not access this technology,” said the subdelegate.
In the course of the meeting, María Rivas and Anxo Rei also reviewed other investments of the Government in the concello, such as the improvement of the energy efficiency of the municipal lighting thanks to the aid of 240,000 euros from the Institute for Diversification and Energy Saving (IDAE) of the Ministry of Ecological Transition, or the extension of broadband by the UNICO Program of the Ministry of Digital Transformation, which allows to bring high-speed internet to 794 households and companies that did not have this service.