Throughout the year, the water service concession company performs maintenance and conservation work on the 5,000 scuppers owned by the city

Francisco Gutiérrez, delegate of Public Services of the City Council of Roquetas, has visited today the scouring works that Hidralia, a concessionaire of the potable water and sewerage service of Roquetas de Mar, is doing these weeks due to the proximity of the time of autumn rains.

These works are a reinforcement of the scupper cleaning campaign, whose maintenance is carried out throughout the year. The maintenance of the sewerage network is carried out continuously and uninterruptedly throughout the year, but before the autumn, the rainy season, the operators reinforce these tasks so that they are in their full hydraulic capacity.

Hidralia has about 5,000 scuppers in the town of Roquetas de Mar, while the sanitation network has more than 220 kilometers of collectors, 35 pumping stations and four storm tanks with a capacity of 25,000 m³. The scuppers are very important for the evacuation of rainwater, since they transport it to its exit to the natural environment so that it does not cause flooding in the population. A periodic cleaning program has been developed for areas that aims to maintain the entire network of scuppers in a perfect state of conservation and operation. In total, Hidralia has about thirty defined areas.

In addition, these works are intensified with the forecast of the arrival of storms, and during the events of rains the incidences that arise appear, signaling and proceeding to the cleaning of the affected areas. Subsequently, the critical points are reviewed where remains of the rain effect may appear, leaving the infrastructure in proper condition.

Hidralia also recalls that improper use of residential sewer systems can lead to breakdowns and dangerous situations in the city's general sewer system. Among these inappropriate uses are the elimination through the toilet of the wet bath towels, which end up forming jams in the sewer networks or in the pumping stations, seriously endangering the operation of the general water evacuation system.