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After complaints of residents of the area and the HUERMUR association, the council declared the work, which was performed with a simple document of President of the Board of Landowners, the City Council did not accept the absence of the municipal building license illegal.
This is the second case of withdrawal of a entubamiento in the main irrigation channel Alquibla after the tubes taken years ago by the mill Oliver, occurred both in Aljucer.
The work now done, as required HUERMUR and neighbors Aljucer and Era Alta, has eliminated embedded in an aqueduct pipe eighteenth century and have been repaired traditional masonry walls that exist in both quijeros.
Saturday has completed the restoration work Canal Torres, an aqueduct eighteenth century building in the hamlet of Aljucer, on the main irrigation channel of barriers or Alquibla, who came starring in a long controversy since the spring of 2011. At that time , some works from a nearby well understood the tubing of a section of the main irrigation channel along the ancient and unique aqueduct, which is embedded pipes and concrete blocks, in a work of dubious taste and questionable technique.
The residents of the area, belonging to the districts of Aljucer, Era Alta and San Gines, launched a campaign to collect signatures and reported the incident to the Department of Planning of the City of Murcia.
Contact the association, HUERMUR also initiated action against these facts, also requiring the presence of members of the local police to lift the corresponding report.
Following disciplinary proceedings initiated by the city, which is excessively delayed in time, the municipal sanction included the payment of a fine for performing works without a municipal license, as well as the return of the canal and the bridge to its original state.
Five years later, residents have been able to see the area in its original state.
Members HUERMUR displaced at this point, contact with neighbors and with the crew celebrating the end of the work with a photo on the aqueduct, have conversed with all remembering stories about this ancient aqueduct, as the tradition of the boyfriends who approached the same for photos after your wedding, or the stone staircase that served to go down the drain to wash and peel.
To HUERMUR, as they exposed their members in the recent Juntamento General, any work of improving the channels intended to be carried out, have to follow the line which ends today, assuming the traditional restoration quijeros, replenishing masonry walls with traditional materials and techniques, recovery steps irrigators and the restoration of the enormous cultural heritage that house the ditches: mills, splitters, bridges, aqueducts, etc.
The association in defense of heritage and Huerta recalls that, with the participation of residents and associations, you can take steps to recover the network of irrigation canals and ditches, proving once again that desentubar these channels is possible, feasible and economically viable, besides representing a clear environmental recovery and improvement of the landscape.
It has again been in Aljucer, singular point where the movement in defense of the Huerta against the downing of Oliver Mill, where now again have withdrawn tubes in a ditch, an example which should be followed in other points were grouped in 2008 Huerta to promote the recovery and value.
Source: HUERMUR
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