The socialist mayor of Mahón (Menorca), Hector Ponshidden for a month the city water was not drinkable. Some reports from the company that manages the water in this municipality alerted the Town Hall that it could not ensure complete disinfection of the water, therefore was not suitable for human consumption.
This is the complaint filed by the PP, which, in its work of controlling the Consistory from the opposition, requested certain reports according to which the company hydrobal had registered on August 21 with the municipal council governed by the PSOE, where it is indicated that there was several problems in the denitrifier which caused a nitrate concentration greater than 50 mg/l.
In fact, in the report itself, the company recommends temporary disconnection of the tank and corresponding health communication to the entire affected population.
However, instead of trying to find a solution to these water problems in Mahón, the Town Hall of Pons This was not communicated to Health In November 2023, water analyzes exceeding human consumption limits, despite the fact that since that same month there were already warnings of Malbúger plant malfunction.
From the PP, they assure that Mayor Pons and the responsible councilor Dolores Antonio, who denied having received the report before Thursday, did not report these irregularities until they are in possession of the opposition. “They apologized, saying the official who received it was on vacation and then on leave, and they had no idea what was going on. “They said that when they learned of the report, they immediately informed the citizens, even though the report had been submitted to the municipal council in August,” denounces the popular.
From the PP they describe the events as a “scandal”
This is why the PP of Mahón requested a extraordinarily full and demanded immediate explanations from the City Hall, as well as all the documents that were exchanged with Hidrobal last year. And they indicate that “it is a scandal that they had the report all this month and did not communicate the malfunction of the plant and the poor quality of the water until it reached the ears of Héctor Pons that the PP had this document and was going to make it public.
“They endangered the health of the inhabitants of Mahonais and if the PP had not wanted to delete it, this information would still be hidden”, declared the popular.
