The capital mayor, Mariano Gaidoannounced that all families that inhabit lands under the jurisdiction of the municipality They will have home gas service this year through an investment of $500 million from municipal funds. The work began in the Auca Mahuida sector for 160 families and will be extended to the 15 sectors of the city that still do not have the basic supply that will benefit 400 families.
Regarding this, the head of the municipality declared: “The National Government paralyzed the works and we have continued. We made the decision to allocate $500 million so that, in the month of November like Auca Mahuida, the 400 families remaining in the city of Neuquén will have the gas they longed for and They wanted it. This is what I have been constantly saying, it cannot be that in the capital of Vaca Muerta and being the second gas reserve, we still have neighborhoods that do not have it. We got to work and here is the result.
Gaido He made the announcement during a tour of the drinking water project being carried out in Auca Mahuida, a neighborhood that has been awaiting the arrival of basic services for more than 15 years. “Not only in Auca Mahuida will gas be contracted, but for the 400 families of the entire city of Neuquén who live on municipal lands, we are going to develop the Dale Gas plan,” he insisted and reinforced: “The budget is approved, they are funds of the surplus destined for each of these works.”
To all this, the president of the Municipal Institute of Urban Planning and Habitat, Marco Zapata, said that the drinking water work is 87% complete in which 140 million pesos were invested. “We are currently finishing the last 20 meters of pipes, so we estimate that within two weeks the drinking water work will be completed,” said Zapata. Regarding this neighborhood, he indicated that the neighbors had been requesting the services for more than 15 years and “We are already finishing one of the most necessary works, which is access to drinking water.”
