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.

Here’s the tourist board’s e-mail that just went out:

Puerto Vallarta, Wednesday, May 19th, 2009
Dear Friends:
Keeping you updated on what’s going on in Puerto Vallarta …
We are so happy that countries like United States, Canada and other countries in Europe have removed the warning against all non-essential travel to Mexico.

We would like to keep you informed about the 0 (zero) number of registered cases of the H1N1 virus in Puerto Vallarta which is one of the beach destinations in Mexico with no cases reported. So we are back to normal. Of course we continue the preventive actions implemented and recommended by our Government.

We want to share with you the testimonial video filmed this week in Puerto Vallarta at the 16th edition of the Sport Classic event hosted in Puerto Vallarta. This event is a lively competition of different sports with the participation of national and international athletes.

We have already sent it to the Mexico Tourism Board, wholesalers and clients in order to be used in newsletters and email blasts for the USA Media and customers traveling to Puerto Vallarta.

Please feel free to use it for your own promotional purposes or send it to your clients so they can see that Puerto Vallarta is ready, safe and clean as always to welcome them all again in México.

Thank you so much for your support and business to Puerto Vallarta “The World’s Friendliest City” (by the readers of the CondeNast Traveler Magazine).

We will keep you posted.

Laura Suarez
Promotion Manager
Puerto Vallarta Convention & Visitors Bureau
laura@visitpuertovallarta.com
www.visitpuertovallarta.com

 
Below is another video, but not produced by the tourist board, about the flu in Puerto Vallarta.