About 200 people, most of them from the Selva Brava and Font Bona de Llagostera housing estates, which constantly experience cuts in the water supply, demonstrated yesterday on the C-35 road, in the direction of Barcelona, ??as a sign of protest about the “deficit” supply provided by the company. The mobilization, which had the support of the Llagostera City Council, caused queues on a day when it was back in operation. According to the Catalan Traffic Service (SCT), the delays, around eight in the evening, reached four kilometers.
With this protest, the conveners want to force the company Rec Madral, in charge of water supply to the two urbanisations, to solve “once and for all the constant cuts in the service” and to invest more in the maintenance of a infrastructure that they consider “obsolete”. “We want a service at the height of the 21st century and not be with woe in our hearts every moment”, said yesterday Lorena Ordóñez, resident of Selva Brava and member of the citizens’ platform Selva Brava Rights and Freedom, recently established to defend the rights of the residents of this urbanization. He points out that for half of the days this July, residents have experienced a breakdown that has left them without water at some point. He assures that the situation this summer is nothing short of “exceptional”. “The same thing happens every year, the cuts and breakdowns are constant,” he says.
A few days ago, Llagostera City Council sent a request to the concessionaire company to restore service to the two affected housing estates. In addition, he urged the Catalan Water Agency (ACA) and the Catalan Consumer Agency to sanction possible violations. The Councilor for Urbanizations, María Carmen Flores, affirms that the demands of the neighbors are “completely legal” and assures that they support the requests, because “the company repeatedly breaches the contract”. The urban planning situation makes it difficult for the City Council to act. Font Bona is in the process of being received by the City Council, but Selva Brava has not yet started the process.
In September, the Consistory plans to start construction work on a new drinking water pipeline to the two neighborhoods.