The Popular Party of Xàbia has made allegations to the Municipal Regulation of the Sanitation and Dumping of Water Service, initially approved in plenary session by the municipal government.
From the Popular Party of Xàbia they have issued a statement (attached below these lines) pointing out each of the inconveniences that arise with this regulation.
"For Popular Xàbia it is urgent to prioritize the implementation and execution of the sanitation network both to fulfill a service that is of municipal competence, and to avoid the underground contamination of our term.
Lack of interest, lack of municipal management and inaction, has led the socialist government to develop a regulation to regulate how individuals supplement the municipal competence to execute the nonexistent sanitation networks in more than half of the municipality. For municipalities like Xàbia and according to article 4 of Royal Decree Law 19/1995 of December 28, the date of January 1, 2001, was the limit that Xàbia had to have collecting systems for the urban wastewater of the municipality. It is finally in the last year when the projects are being prepared and now, but in the exposed regulation, it is intended to pass the “inoperativeness” to the interested party, making all the burden fall on him, without considering the administration or a single collaboration, exemption and clarity of deadlines, in the financing of these works.
The regulation says that the license xicotetioners will connect to the municipal sanitation network if it exists in the area and if there is a distance of 100 meters from their property to the main network. But if the distance is greater than 100 meters, then transitory alternative solutions for the storage of faecal wastewater treatment may be authorized., it is said that they will “Choose to carry out the installation of an individual wastewater collection system”.
In Xàbia, You can only choose between not connecting to the main network or installing a watertight tank. There is only one option that is expensive, cumbersome and expensive, and there are no more alternatives or more options: either a watertight deposit or no license..
But, to what type of licenses are the installation of a watertight tank conditioned?
It is curious that the regulation says that the single-family home chooses not to connect to the general network, this is not a matter of whether or not it is chosen, it is a matter that neither the main network nor the secondary network exists in much of the term municipal.
For legal certainty, and so that when the time comes for the granting of licenses, there are no technical discussions and interpretations between technicians and professionals, it is necessary to have greater certainty and to know which applications for building licenses will affect them. The regulation does not discriminate which works it does or which will not require them to install a watertight tank, It does not expressly refer to major construction licenses, minor construction licenses, or responsible declarations.
The requirements to determine the mandatory nature of installing a watertight tank must be perfectly listed in the regulations to avoid uncertainty when applying for a license. Regulations cannot be made and approved, which do not solve problems, and on the contrary, as in the present case, generate more problems than solutions.
For the cases of requests for a new plant, it seems less questionable, but what happens with the works of mere reform or expansion of existing homes that already have an individual discharge system (already authorized) or even for the request license for the construction of a swimming pool, it is not specified in the regulation whether or not the municipal administration will require the installation of a watertight tank, as a condition to grant the requested license.
Neither is it determined what will happen to an existing house, that has a license granted and that with the new general structural plan its inclusion in the scope of an Interior Reform Act (ARI) has been foreseen. What will happen in these cases? Will you be granted the reform license, expansion of major works, respecting the discharge system you have?
The regulation also omit to point out what the sampling is for and what the result will mean, since no violation is contemplated for the assumption of obtaining a negative result from the analysis of the sample taken.
The popular ones emphasize that a previous study or memory of economic viability of the repercussions that the approval of this Regulation will have on both the municipal coffers and on citizens is missing..
The costs of installing a watertight tank entail assuming expenses for a technical project, carrying out the installation works, paying a full deposit, paying the fees and taxes to obtain the license, acquiring the watertight tank, signing a contract with the management company authorized for collection, a biweekly payment for emptying the deposit, a report to the request for justification of non-discharge into the public domain
issued by the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation and the request for authorization to the town hall to carry out maintenance work. Costs that will add up to a very significant amount and not suitable for all budgets and all this, regardless of the time to resolve the situation.
The number of people affected by this alternative measure will be high and the investment made by each one of them has nothing to do with the financially sustainable investments that are applicable to the municipal administration, but in no case to those administered.
Rosa Cardona points out that, since the City Council has not fulfilled its obligation to execute the local sanitation network, it is urged to implement instruments that encourage and in turn facilitate public-private financing for the execution of connections to the sanitation network municipal, such as exempting or subsidizing the payment of fees and taxes, etc.
In short, approximately 50% of existing homes and the majority of plots will be subject to this new regulation, and in reality what happens is that who should receive the municipal service is now obliged to provide it, Reason enough to urge that this regulation be re-studied in depth before its final approval, and dedicate all efforts to undertake the works of the municipal sanitation network that
Xàbia needs not to contaminate ".
