After a long process of weaving and dealing and being stopped at the beginning of Javier Milei’s presidential administration, the construction of the highway to Mendoza will return to life. The same will happen with two mega sanitation projects and two fundamental aqueducts in the midst of the water crisis, all public works that the Nation finances in the province. That is the outcome of the meeting that Governor Marcelo Orrego held yesterday in Buenos Aires with the president’s chief of staff, Guillermo Francos, and which served to unblock works that are not only essential at the service infrastructure level in San Juan, but They will also imply an important reactivation of both the economy and employment at the local level.
The most resonant of these works, especially because of the impact it will have, is the construction of the highway on the route of Route 40 South. The work, which was financed with national and international funds, could not be reactivated from San Juan because for that the Nation had to transfer those rights. Precisely this strategic move is what Orrego and Francos agreed upon, so now the provincial government will be able to negotiate directly with the IDB for financing that guarantees the continuity of the work. With this procedure resolved, as officially reported yesterday, the construction of section 2 will begin, which has a total extension of 27.4 km between the Sarmiento towns of Tres Esquinas and Cochagual.
But the commitment was also to reactivate, with national funds, other works that were stopped. Two of them are the Gran Tulum and El Tambillo-Rodeo aqueducts. The first will benefit more than 1 million inhabitants from the drinking water service over the next 50 years, with sustainable improvements in water infrastructure. The second, meanwhile, will improve the drinking water service of some 8,500 church members settled in the towns of Bella Vista, Villa Iglesia, Las Flores, Pismanta, Tudcum and Rodeo.
Also with national funds, they agreed to reactivate the third stage of the Jáchal Sewage Subsystem, to incorporate some 5,200 more people from the department into the system and expand the sewage liquid treatment plant. And the other key sanitation work to be reactivated will be the construction, in three stages, of the Rawson Treatment Plant, in Cerrillo Barboza. At a technical level, what they will do are different chambers to distribute the flow of wastewater, as explained by the Government. Now what remains, in all cases, is to define the deadlines for restarting works.
In the previous, a meeting with Pettovello
Before the meeting with the national chief of staff, Orrego held a meeting with the Minister of Human Capital, Sandra Pettovello, one of the most intimate bishops of President Milei’s red circle. As detailed by the governor on the social network to open doors to joint work.”
