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Personal Operating System Services Water, Sewage and Drainage (SEAPAL) from Puerto Vallarta, today launched an intensive cleaning of river banks of the Ameca and Cuale, with the aim of safeguarding the health of its two most important sources of potable water, and as part of its contribution to the national campaign called Clean Up Our Mexico.

Humberto Vargas Muñoz, director of SEAPAL Vallarta, reported Thursday that yesterday, on the first day of the work, employees of the manager in charge of Operations, Oscar Rodriguez Castellon, collected over 60 tons of waste near the water treatment plant and the North II Cuale.

Our goal is to join the efforts of the national campaign promoted by TV Azteca for next Sunday.

“The important thing is that we take a first step in an ongoing and systematic effort to secure control of the radial well that is located at the confluence of the rivers and Ameca, as well as water treatment plants of the Cuale. These are our main sources of the drinking water supplied to hundreds of thousands of residents and tourists of Puerto Vallarta. With little effort or resources we can keep them as clean as possible and thereby maintain the excellent quality standard achieved for the drinking water supplies provided by SEAPAL. I can proudly say that we are offering Vallarta and visitors, drinking water in quantity and excellent quality, and with sewage growing everyday, an excellent treatment of waste water … we will do what is necessary for this to continue,” he said.

EFFORT CONTINUES UNTIL SUNDAY

The Operation Manager said yesterday that Thursday, with the full support of the Single Union SEAPAL Vallarta, led by Martín Hernández and Antonio Rangel, clean-up work began with field staff using backhoe excavators, trucks, and hand machetes, and the channel was cleared near the waste effluent treatment plant of the North II, and the river Ameca upstream of the Radial del Pozo facility.

Refrigerators, stoves, microwave ovens, computer cabinets, bicycle tires, cars and trucks, buckets, plastic and glass bottles, debris, dead trees and weeds …, more than 60 tons of waste … was collected from the banks of the river between the mouth and the water treatment plants.

Field staff responsible for the verification of meters, checking leakage, distributing receipts and other work outside offices, carried in their vehicles plastic bags to collect garbage on their way through the streets of the town.

Friday, this work will continue, and be joined for at least two hours in the morning by the efforts of employees who will rid streets of rubbish near all the SEAPAL offices in the municipality, from the central Avenida Francisco Villa, to Las Palmas, through Pitillal, Ixtapa, Aram, and so on.

On Saturday and Sunday, each of over 500 employees of SEAPAL and their families with put the “finishing touch” on the cleaning campaign by clearing trash from their own homes, streets and communities.