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Lorca socialists demand the completion of the current Plan of Flood Control in the upper basins of the wadi Torrecilla, Bejar, Nogalte and Vilerda.

"A definitive solution, which would mean a life insurance for more than 15,000 inhabitants of the valley and the garden of Lorca, damaged by the floods of 2012"

The PSOE Councillor David Romera has filed a motion with the Socialists they seek in the regular full on Monday that the city of Lorca approve and implement measures that mitigate "the maximum possible" the risk of floods and fires forest, especially in the summer months and for next fall.

Sensitive to the tragic lived episodes, especially in 2012 after the flood of St. Wenceslas, the Socialists Lorca claim the consistory to urge the Local Government team to the CARM and the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura to preventively, adopted many measures considered necessary to reduce the risk of flooding in the town of Lorca in the coming months, recalls "prone to the development of atmospheric phenomena of 'cold drop'" and warns "can generate rainfall of great intensity, overflow river channel and flood large parts of the municipality. "

The mayor considers it necessary to urge the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment so that, through the CHS and in coordination with the regional and municipal administration, will launch a Plan of Cleaning and Maintenance riverbeds and riverbanks and streams that run through the town of Lorca.

Also, he adds, it urges that carry out planning and implementation of plans Afforestation and Hydrological correction needed in the upper watersheds affected by desertification.

But if there is a measure that is "crucial and vital" to reduce the impact of possible torrential rains as the Socialist Group that is the need for the Plan of Defense against Avenues force is completed, and will involve the construction of dams flood control in the wadis of Vilerda, Nogalte, Bejar and Torrecilla "to avoid flooding densely populated areas in large deputations from the garden and golf Lorca".

As for measures to alleviate the risk of forest fires and keep in good tragic as episodes as those experienced last year with the fire broke out in the Sierra del Almirez, the Socialists demand the need to urge the General Directorate of Natural Environment CARM, to put up decisively measures to reduce the risk of forest fire in the mountains for the summer, and passing through the cleaning and care of forests or maintaining firebreaks, among other measures.

The development of awareness campaigns, especially among school children on foster care as natural areas, and to know how to act in case of flooding are also measures that the PSOE will propose in plenary.

Source: PSOE Lorca