Publish the order to send now only 7.5 hm3 to the supply and warn of the exceptional situation until the end of the year
The current exceptional hydrological situation at the head of the Tagus, which will last for the next three months, and the supply and irrigation consumption forecast during that period may cause the transferable reserves of the Entrepeñas and Buendía System to run out in two months. This is one of the reasons given by the Ministry for not transferring this month water for irrigation in Levante and deriving only the allocation of 7.5 cubic hectometres to supply the population.
This is reflected in the order published this Friday in the BOE and signed by the Secretary of State for the Environment, Hugo Morán, which contains the Cedex report on the decrease in contributions in the header due to the drought. This stored 489 hectometers on September 1 and is close to the non-transferable red line of 400 hectometers. The Ministry also indicates that the current volume of reserves in the Segura basin from the Transfer and those pending derivation represent 61.4 hm3.
On this basis, the Ministry has decided for this month a ‘zero transfer’ for irrigation and will only send the allocation for the population, although the technical proposal of the Exploitation Commission indicated that it could authorize up to a maximum volume of 20 hectometers. The Ministry concludes that it justifies its decision taking into account the consumption of the coming months.
The popular deputies from Alicante in Congress, César Sánchez, Macarena Montesinos and Agustín Almodóbar, demanded this Friday that the central government clarify “based on what technical criteria the water for irrigation of the Tajo-Segura Transfer has been closed”, a decision that they describe as “an attack” that “mortally wounds the Segura orchard.”
Canons of the Segura
The Las Vegas del Segura Exploitation Board, chaired by the technical director of the CHS, Carlos Marco, and made up of the different users affected by the exploitation of the Segura, Mundo and Quípar rivers, analyzed this Friday the regulation canon for the next year, which will increase slightly.
For irrigation in the basin prior to 1933, the canon proposal is 14.44 euros per hectare, applicable to an area of 41,821 hectares.
In irrigation after 1933, the proposed canon is 15.49 euros per hectare and will be applicable to 25,906 hectares. For its part, in the irrigable area of Hellín, the canon offered is 6.19 euros over a total of 3,135 hectares. In supplies, the canon offered is 0.012341 euros per cubic meter and will apply to 24 hectometers. Finally, for hydroelectric uses, a canon of 0.000636 euros/kWh has been assessed and will apply to 24,000,955 kWh.
Irrigation users are represented in the Las Vegas del Segura Exploitation Board, some 70,000 hectares, part of the supplies to the population and the existing hydroelectric uses.
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