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The PSOE asks that the projects be reintroduced to increase the water storage capacity for irrigation in the Valdeinfierno reservoir (15/12/2017)

They claim that there have been several projects in the Segura Hydrographic Confederation for a decade to increase the water reserves for irrigation in the Valdeinfierno reservoir, whose capacity is reduced by 50% due to the erosion caused by erosion.

Likewise, it informs that this Lorca swamp does not serve for the rolling of avenues and it demands a plan of reforestation that avoids the dragging of materials until the vat of the swamp and its clogging.

The councilor of the PSOE in the City of Lorca, David Romera, has asked the PP government team to urge the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura and the Government of Spain to "resume the projects that were written more than a decade ago for adapt the Valdeinfierno Reservoir Dam to the Technical Regulation on Dam and Reservoir Safety, as it is affected by cracks and increase the storage capacity of water for irrigation in the Valdeinfierno Reservoir, whose capacity is reduced by half as a consequence of the silting by sediments he suffers. "

The mayor recalls that when the current dam was re-established in 1897, Valdeinfierno had a capacity of almost 22 cubic hectometres, which has been reduced by more than 50% when the vessel is filled by légamos transported in floods and river floods that are tributaries, calculated in 1.6 million cubic meters.

In addition, he assures, the scarce capacity of the swamp and the bad state of the dam causes that practically this one "is unusable for the lamination of avenues, that truly are retained in the Swamp of Bridges".

Romera has indicated that in December 2005 the drafting by technicians of the Ministry of Environment of several preliminary projects to solve this problem, and in which several options to increase the storage capacity of water for irrigation of the reservoir , especially necessary in drought stages like the current one, as well as allowing the rolling of avenues that generate floods ".

Such options, he assures, "act as a dam on the swamp, since the removal of the sediments was described as very costly and harmful from the environmental point of view:" or, the current dam is being recreated, built in 1788 and enlarged for the first time in 1897;

or, the construction of a new one upstream of the current one, which would be preserved as a Hydraulic Monument of times of the Bourbon Reformism promoted by Carlos III. "For the latter case, a new dam was projected that would multiply the reservoir capacity of the reservoir by four. swamp.

In this sense, the socialist mayor asks that the City Council of Lorca urged the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura and the Government of Spain to recover these projects "forgotten in a drawer for twelve years," and opted for the best technical solution to "increase the storage capacity of irrigation water so necessary for the field and the vegetable garden of Lorca, especially in periods of drought as intense as the current one, which would make it possible to provide Lorca irrigators with greater water resources to take your crops forward. "

In the same way, it assures that Valdeinfierno, of having greater capacity, would play an essential role in the system of defense against floods in the Cuenca Alta del Guadalentín by acting as a laminator of avenues.

Finally, Romera indicates the "imperative need" to carry out an ambitious Plan of Forest Repopulation in the entire catchment basin of the swamp, one of the most deforested in Spain, to stop the processes of desertification and sediment trawling that go to go to the marsh, because otherwise and even carrying out projects on the dam, the same problem will reappear in the short or medium term and the investment will be useless.

Source: PSOE Lorca

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