Faced with the unfortunate state of the sewerage network evidenced in recent months, the Socialists ask the local government to stop provisional patches with which they have erected numerous streets and introduce as greater investment of the delayed Budget 2017 comprehensive reform of the network To modernize it and adapt it to the present urban area
The Municipal Socialist Group has stated that "the unfortunate state of the sewerage network of Yecla can not stand another minute and that its solution can not happen to patch 'week if week' also an aging, deteriorated and saturated network, but Has to face integrally its reform and adaptation to the current conditions of the city.
The socialist spokesperson, Asun Molina, recalled that "the sewerage infrastructure in Yecla began in the 1920s, and was expanded in the 1960s, but until the arrival of democracy was not generalized this service by Until now it has been expanding according to the needs of growth of the city and have been fixed as deficiencies, breakages or strong deteriorations have arisen but we have reached a point where the indicators show that, as different Reports have pointed out, the network is collapsed and obsolete. "
Molina believes that "at more than a month and a half with a key point such as the water wall completely lifted, now adds a new patch on San Jose street, and another in the area of ​​the police station, which add up to different Provisional solutions adopted in other streets as Maestro Mora or Cura Ibáñez, causing serious problems of circulation and a consequent risk, at least that is, to the public health, and to that is added the uselessness of numerous scuppers blocked and that do not evacuate correctly the water On rainy days. "
The spokesperson of the Socialist Municipal Group has registered a request to the local government to address as integral priority of the City Council comprehensive reform through a Strategic Plan of Action of the Sewerage Network of Yecla, trying to avoid the harm that supposes in the neighbors Future ruptures or leaks caused by the concatenation of patches, and since we are almost in April and the local government takes months of delay in drafting the Budgets of 2017, demand that it be considered as one of the most important investments this year.
Source: PSOE Yecla