The CHS began work yesterday on one of the potentially most conflictive channels, with an expenditure of 200,000 euros
The Segura Hydrographic Confederation (CHS) has begun maintenance work on the Guadalentín river channel as it passes through Murcia, known as El Reguerón, sources from the basin organization reported. It is one of the potentially most dangerous riverbeds during episodes of intense rainfall.
The work includes a first section that covers the districts of La Alberca, Santo Ángel, Algezares and Beniaján, which will have greater security against possible floods. The works include the removal of vegetation of exotic and invasive species, as well as other obstacles. These works are carried out as a continuation of the ordinary maintenance of channels that the CHS usually carries out within the public hydraulic domain and that increase at the end of the hydrological year in anticipation of rains.
In addition, among the objectives of these actions is the elimination of certain obstacles that may hinder the evacuation of water. To do this, the CHS reports that it plans to use five machines of various sizes and characteristics. The budget for the complete section of El Reguerón amounts to 200,000 euros.
The municipality of San Pedro del Pinatar begins a thorough cleaning that includes the perimeter channel of the Las Salinas park
We can fear “a disaster”
The formation Podemos warned yesterday of an “imminent disaster” in Los Alcázares in the event that a DANA occurs. The parliamentary spokeswoman, María Marín, visited this municipality together with representatives of the Stop Flood Platform to check the causes of the floods and work on possible alternatives, this party reported in a statement.
Marín denounced that they have found constructions and crops “invading what were previously natural streams” and that now “they are artificially diverted from their course.” He criticized the “territorial planning disaster” in this area and gave as an example the construction of a “totally illegal” canal, parallel to the Balsicas highway, for which he blamed the regional government.
The City Council of San Pedro del Pinatar, for its part, has begun cleaning and unblocking scuppers, gratings, hard shoulders, boulevard areas and highway water passages where there may be a greater risk of flooding in the event of torrential rains. Likewise, tomorrow the clearing work of the perimeter channel of Las Salinas will begin, which have the measures established by the General Directorate of the Natural Environment for the preservation of the environment. The canal is 3 kilometers long, but the cleaning work is complex due to its 10 meters width and its depth, which reaches 2.5 meters in some areas, the Department reported.
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