Eliana City Council has achieved a new environmental award to obtain the "Green-Flag Town Manager" in the tenth edition of the awards sponsored by the Consumer Federation of Independent Members, (FUCI) in collaboration with the Biodiversity Foundation. At the ceremony which took place today in Madrid, attended a council delegation headed by Mayor of Eliana, Jose Maria Angel and composed of the governing council of the opposition, and municipal. With them was also our coordinator of GGA and Professor at IES La Eliana Lourdes Monda that has done so much not only by the GGA and the institute, but also for its people and its neighbors. Lourdes is a pleasure to have you in the GGA.
The prize rewards the actions that the council is carrying out in waste, street cleaning and gardens, environmental commitment, water management, environmental education and citizen participation, as well as energy consumption and pollution . Angel was "very happy" to be revalidated "a very prestigious award," and stressed that the Green Flag " is the result of the council and our neighbors are doing to promote sustainable development and encourage Eliana green and environmentally friendly. "
experts in environmental policies that make up the jury of the contest have appreciated in his failure of initiatives such as conditioning Mandor ravine, which further improve the drainage capacity of the bed result in the environmental recovery and scenic 90,000 m2, the Ethnobotanical Garden and Garden of the garden tables, whose works have already begun. Denitrifying Plant which will be operational in the coming months is another of the actions that have al'Eliana supporter of this award. With an investment of more than 15 million, this infrastructure will provide the municipality with water low in nitrates and allow the reuse of waste water for less demanding uses such as watering gardens and public baldeig Street, becoming the first floor of Spain of these features.
Efficiency in selective waste collection, environmental education and commitment, reflected in the Local Agenda 21 and the Symposium Sociambientals-and citizen participation, with initiatives such as the "Council of Citizen Participation", "Board of Children" and "Volunteer Center" are other aspects that have to contrubuït Eliana guanye again this prestigious award.
The Green Flag is not the only distinction that Eliana has received for its environmental management. The council was a finalist in April 2008 Sustainable City Award, sponsored Foundation for Environmental Forum, Ecocity, in the category of Water Cycle Management. A recognition that, as in the case of the green flag, the town was already obtained in 2003. That same year, in addition, Eliana was a finalist for the Green Pineapple Adena for its effectiveness in the implementation of Local Agenda 21.
Again this prestigious council want to convey our best congratulations for the outstanding management is doing every day at environmental level.
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