The governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, announced this afternoon from the municipality of Guaminí the call for bids for a work of more than 1,900 million pesos that will allow the total paving of the Cereal Route, the corridor through which it circulates much of the provincial production of grains, meat and milk, which also includes the districts of Tres Lomas, Daireaux, Pehuajó and Trenque Lauquen. He was accompanied by the Minister of Infrastructure and Public Services, Agustín Simone; the national director of Roads, Gustavo Arrieta; and the local mayor, José Augusto Nobre Ferreira.
In this context, Kicillof highlighted that “on the Cereal Route, which is approximately 100 kilometers long, 20 kilometers had been built in the 1990s and another section during the previous administration.” “Our task is to finish the works: we don’t like things by halves, we have to start the works and we have to finish them,” he added.
“This work of more than 1,900 million pesos seeks to favor the productive sector in a region that has 650 thousand hectares dedicated to the production of grains and livestock,” said the Governor, while appreciating “the need to enhance the capacities of the Province to generate greater added value, supporting above all small agricultural producers ”.
The intervention on 47 kilometers of the Cereal Route also includes complementary sewerage works. The paving of the road will directly benefit neighbors in rural areas and agricultural producers in the region, improving road connectivity and promoting productive development.
Minister Simone stressed that “with the completion of a 47-kilometer stretch on the Cereal Route, in just one year we will have done the same thing that took 40 years.” “This is a demonstration of the commitment we have with the interior of the Province and rural areas, carrying out a work that will improve connectivity and productivity in the area,” he added.
On this occasion, the Province is calling for bids for the Salazar – RN33 section, which will require an investment of 1,912 million pesos and will alleviate the cargo traffic that circulates through routes 5 and 65 to connect with the ports, reducing its journey in approximately 40 kilometers.
“Today we come to pay off a historical debt with this region,” Arrieta highlighted and emphasized: “We have gone through the pandemic not only taking care of the lives of each of the people of Buenos Aires, but also planning the day after, so that development, production and work are the great computers that allow us to give a better quality of life to the residents of the Province ”.
For his part, Mayor Nobre Ferreira remarked: “We have pushed for many years so that this million-dollar work could be carried out. Today it is very important to look to the interior in order to build a more federal province and country ”.
Finally, Kicillof pointed out that “this enormous investment for a work that was postponed for a long time, also implies the generation of work and foreshadows the way in which we intend for the way out of the pandemic”. “We want to be empowered, with a Province in which there are no first and second-rate Buenos Aires residents, which thinks about each locality and town in the interior and gives them the instruments that generate more equality,” he concluded.
During the event, Simone and Nobre Ferreira signed agreements for new infrastructure projects in the municipality: the works at the Laguna Alsina treatment plant, with an investment of 1.8 million pesos, and the maintenance and operation of the work of sewers in place; as well as the framework agreement of the Municipal Infrastructure Fund (FIM) for the construction of urban pavement for 35 million pesos. Likewise, an agreement was signed with the National Water Sanitation Works Agency (ENOHSA) for the execution of the second stage of the works on the sewage network, pumping station, impulsion and modular treatment plant, within the framework of the plan “Argentina Does”.
Also present were the Chief of Staff, Carlos Bianco; the Minister of Production, Science and Technological Innovation, Augusto Costa; the Minister of Agrarian Development, Javier Rodríguez, and the ENOHSA deputy administrator, Néstor Álvarez.
Tour of the facilities of the Laguna Alsina Sewage Treatment Plant
Earlier, Kicillof toured the facilities of the Laguna Alsina Sewage Treatment Plant, where the Province restarted the works that had been paralyzed in 2019. This is an investment of more than 219 million pesos that allows the treatment of 100 % of the sewage effluents of the locality.
“This was a work that was pending completion, with debts, and from the Province we did what was needed. This sewage treatment plant has a connection to each of the homes “, assured Kicillof and added:” Along with the other projects we are doing in Guaminí, it improves the well-being of the residents of the municipality. “
Minister Simone noted: “We are fulfilling the Governor’s mandate to reach all municipalities. Today we are in a town that already has sewers and in a very few months it will have network gas because soon the work of the gas pipeline is finished ”.
The works included the execution of a network of sewage collectors with a pipe length of 25,150 meters, the completion of 1,025 household connections and the construction of three sewage pumping stations.
“This is a work that improves the quality of life of the residents of the town of Laguna Alsina,” said Nobre Ferreira.
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