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Lorca City Council has agreed to the corresponding regular full by April to make available to the Ministry of Agriculture and Water of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia the land needed for the construction of required facilities for water use Waste Treatment Station Wastewater Turrilla by the Community Irrigation Campo Alto de La Paca.

Also, it was agreed to ask the Concierge of Agriculture and Water of the CARM carrying out the necessary works for the reuse of these wastewater and driving up the irrigation area of ​​the Community Irrigation Campo Alto de La Paca, whichever proceed by the city of Lorca to find accurate solutions, such as installing a temporary pipe of 63 mm, to achieve a temporary solution to the problem until the final execution of the works.

Lorca Mayor has stated that the Community Irrigation Campo Alto de La Paca, is composed of several districts of northern Lorca;

providing irrigation to an area of ​​450 hectares belonging to 200 families.

These small farms are mainly organic crops and have come to be the livelihood of many families living in that area of ​​Lorca.

Due to the drought that we have been suffering the aquifer exploitation polls in feed, has entered a phase of general decline it almost impossible to continue the agricultural and livestock work.

In addition there has been a deterioration in water quality that makes it even more difficult to maintain the activity.

Francisco Jodar, moreover, stressed that the Community Irrigation Campo Alto holds a concession wastewater from the Treatment Plant Wastewater La Paca, which due to the new construction of the Industrial water treatment of Turrilla, this water intake point change since the existing treatment plant will stop working, and therefore have to take wastewater into the new point of making the WWTP Turrilla.

The mayor has reported that because of this, and unwavering commitment to the Consistory Lorca has with irrigators of the municipality, and aid received by the primary sector is to proceed with the construction of a reservoir regulation and a new pipelines to continue reusing these wastewater irrigation to supplement the underground aquifer.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca