Sarria opens thirty days for public allegations regarding water and sewage rates

The Sarria City Council is submitting for public information the modification of the fiscal ordinances regulating the water supply fee, the supply network, and the discharge of wastewater in the municipality’s treatment plants. The provisional approval agreement was adopted by the Plenary in the session of October 29, 2026, under file 4206/2026, and is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Lugo number 261, dated November 13, 2026, on page 16, with reference R. 3099.

The processing is based on article 17.2 of the Recast Text of the Law Regulating Local Treasuries, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 2/2004, of March 5. The regulation requires the opening of a public exhibition period before definitively submitting any modification of fiscal ordinances, so that interested parties may examine the file and present the allegations they deem appropriate.

The announcement bears the signature of the mayor, Claudio M. Garrido Martínez, and is dated in Sarria on November 6, 2026, one week before its insertion in the provincial gazette.

Provisional approval agreed on October 29

The competent body is the Plenary of the municipal corporation, which in the session of October 29, 2026, agreed to provisionally approve the modification of the fiscal ordinances regulating three tax figures linked to the water cycle:

• Water supply fee.
• Supply network fee.
• Wastewater discharge fee in the council’s treatment plants.

The text of the provisional approval agreement, containing the proposed modification, is available to interested parties on the Transparency Portal of the Municipal Electronic Office, as indicated by the announcement itself.

Thirty business days to examine and object

The file is submitted for public information for a period of thirty business days, counted from the day following the publication of the announcement in the Official Gazette of the Province of Lugo, that is, starting from November 14. During this period, any interested party may consult the file and present the allegations they consider appropriate.

The announcement expressly establishes the consequence of administrative silence in this procedure: if no claims are presented within the indicated period, the agreement will be understood as definitive. From that moment, the modification of the ordinances will deploy all its effects on the settlement of the fees.

The water bill, managed by a concessionaire

The modification directly affects the bill paid by users, because the fiscal ordinances set the quotas issued in each billing period. The provincial gazette does not detail the new tariffs in the announcement, which must be consulted in the file exhibited to the public.

The service is operated by a concessionaire company, ESPINA & DELFÍN, S.L., with an office at Peregrino Street number 31, ground floor, in Sarria. In the census announcements published this year, the city council included in the fees the water supply, the maintenance of meters, the water canon, and waste collection, with a voluntary payment period that, in the second quarter of 2026, ended on October 4, according to what was published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Lugo number 207, of September 10, 2026.

A recent precedent in the same council

This is not the first modification of a fiscal ordinance that Sarria has processed this year using the same procedure. File 2116/2026, relating to the fee for the issuance of administrative documents, was provisionally approved in the Plenary of July 30, 2026, and was made public through an announcement in the provincial gazette number 190, of August 21, 2026.

As no claims were registered, that agreement was automatically elevated to definitive, as published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Lugo of October 13, 2026. The process now initiated therefore follows a path already taken by the council this same fiscal year.

The open period is the only real opportunity to influence the text before it becomes final: any affected neighbor can lodge an objection against the new quotas before they are consolidated, and the final content of the ordinances will determine the amount of the water bill, the drains, and the discharge that the users of Sarria will pay in the coming years.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Lugo, no. 261, November 13, 2026, section I, p. 16 (official reference: R. 3099).