Monday, February 27, 2023, 10:23
The cleaning of the river will have to wait. The high level with which the Segura passes through Orihuela has forced the postponement of the scheduled dates. The plans of the Department of the Environment, as advanced by LA VERDAD, included undertaking the removal of waste between the Ociopia and the dam on these same dates. Bardomeras that even blocked the intake of the Callosa ditch and left dozens of irrigators without water.
For this reason, the Segura Hydrographic Confederation (CHS) retained more water in the Ojós dam for a few days in order to lower the river level and allow machines access to the dam and unclog the dam. The City Council has been appreciating with concern a repeated need to undertake these cleanings despite measures such as the floating barrier installed next to the Ociopía. Already last January, 11 tons were withdrawn in just two days.
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That is why the City Council, in a joint action with Hidraqua, will change the current containment barrier for a floating fence with which they hope to reduce the passage of “large amounts of floating, mostly plastic and cans, to the river to his passage through Orihuela and that is a real problem, “announced the councilor for the area, Guillermo Cánovas.
The current barrier is made up of cork buoys linked together by a cable, leaving space between them that allows the passage of floaters. The new floating fence barrier has two parts, one above the water formed by a solid cylindrical flotation fender covered in PVC, resistant to hydrocarbons and solar radiation, and another, submerged in water, made up of a PVC skirt that ends in a ballast chain resistant to currents preventing waste from passing below.
Cánovas explains that, in addition, “this new barrier, being anchored to the ends of the river in a diagonal way facing the current of the river, will create a kind of braking of the superficial layer of the water and thus the waste will be left aside to be able to remove it more easily” .
In this sense, the mayor of the Environment assures that “the replacement of this barrier is necessary to solve one of the historical problems that we have in the riverbed as it passes through Orihuela. Likewise, together with the Water Judge, we have a meeting pending with the CHS to address the arrival of large amounts of plastics in Orihuela from upstream” and announces that “the installation of the new barrier is scheduled for the month of March” .
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