Cuenca Provincial Council will invest almost 13,000 euros in fixing and water...

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With this action, the deterioration and current water losses of these tanks, which are located in the Cuesta de Juan Bueno area and have a maximum capacity of close to 1.2 million liters, will be corrected.

The Provincial Council of Cuenca is going to invest almost 13,000 euros in the repair and waterproofing of two of the drinking water supply tanks in the Cuenca town of Motilla del Palancar. An action that is framed, as highlighted by the Deputy for Development, Javier Parrilla, within the commitment of this Provincial Council to collaborate with the City Councils of the province for the adequate provision of municipal services to its neighbors and, of course, The supply of drinking water is, without a doubt, one of them.

Not in vain, as Parrilla has stressed, the provincial institution has contemplated in this year's budgets around one million euros for those interventions related to the water cycle, which range from the detection of leaks, surveys and water collections. to Switzerland Phone Numbers 6 Million List improvements in the drinking water supply and distribution networks, including the control of the quality of water for human consumption and the maintenance of chlorination equipment for public use and municipal ownership.

In this sense, the deputy details that this action responds to the different anomalies and deficiencies presented by these two prefabricated concrete tanks, with a maximum capacity close to 1.2 million liters, which are even causing considerable water losses. . Not in vain, the technical services of the Provincial Council have detected highly degraded areas on the reinforced concrete cover of both tanks due to the action of ice and erosion, to which must be added the poor condition of the joints of the sections. circulars that make up said covers. Deficiencies to which we must add water leaks through three of the horizontal joints of one of the tanks.







As a consequence, the intervention of the Provincial Council on the roof of both tanks will focus on preventing the further deterioration of the concrete in this part of the infrastructure, cleaning up the affected areas, replacing the concrete and a new layer of lightened mortar with perlite-type aggregate. and waterproofing with a UV-resistant liquid membrane, composed of polyurethane and rubber.

In the same way and in order to put an end to water leaks from one of the tanks, the waterproofing of the damaged horizontal joints will be undertaken with their sealing using a Sikadurcombiflex system, formed by polyofeline bands glued on both sides of the joint with SikadurCombiflex Adhesive.