The burying of the high-voltage power lines that cross the municipalities of Reus and Castellvell del Camp will be completed within a maximum period of five years. This was stated by the director of the Catalan Institute of Energy, Marta Morera, who this Thursday, accompanied by representatives of both councils, met with the residents of the El Pinar urbanization to explain the project to them. Although the Government approved the subsidy of 2.46 million euros this Tuesday, the municipalities now need to sign the agreement with Endesa, who will carry out the works.
The Reus council hopes to reach an agreement before the end of the year. The neighbors have celebrated that the project has been resumed after 50 years of demands.
The Government approved on Tuesday to grant a subsidy of 2.46 million euros to the Reus City Council to bury 1.43 kilometers of the 110 kV line Reus-Valls and Reus-Seròs as it passes through the El Pinar urbanization and which also affects in a section of the municipality of Castellvell del Camp (Baix Camp). In total, the project has an initial budget of 4.3 million euros.
“In this way, the commitment that the Government acquired eighteen years ago is fulfilled,” said the director of the Catalan Institute of Energy (ICAEN), Marta Morera, who recalled that the burying of this power line was already foreseen in an agreement. signed between the ICAEN and the Reus City Council in 2006.
The lack of a technical project postponed its execution and the arrival of the economic crisis caused the work to be rejected. Morera also celebrated that the action solves a problem that, according to him, was illegal for “having allowed an urbanization to be built between high-tension lines.”
Despite these eighteen years of delay, the residents of the El Pinar de Reus urbanization have been demanding the undergrounding of the lines for more than fifty years. “We finally see the end of all the work done,” celebrated the president of the neighborhood association, Anton Sotorra. “We suffered the transport of this anergy so necessary for all of us, both because of the visual and even medical impact,” Sotorra stressed. Now, the entity hopes to “allocate their efforts to other more fun and good topics for the neighborhood.”
