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The Confederation gives the municipality the flow recirculation system, which increases the amount of water in the channel
Continue the process of integration of the Segura River and the city of Murcia is the aim of the agreement have today signed the City and the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura (CHS).
The document includes the creation of two large parks at the entrance and exit of the river in the village, tourist itineraries of scenic and cultural attractions, a bike path continued on the river bank of more than 27 kilometers linking Beniel to La Contraparada, areas of traditional landscape of the Huerta de Murcia, environmental Interpretation Center in La Contraparada environment, entertainment and recreation, sports facilities and cultural activities, among other improvements.
The CHS will collaborate with the municipality on the transfer of land use and the necessary authorizations.
The improvement in the quality of the waters of the river achieved in recent years has allowed the inhabitants of Murcia go back to look at Segura, and turned it back into the center of the leisure activities of the city.
Now City Hall and Hydrographic Confederation of Segura go a step further and work hand in hand to complete this union and recover at the same time the natural environment of the channel.
The performance of greater significance is the adequacy of the Safe for creating routes and itineraries of cultural tourism landscape, hydraulic and ethnographic interest, with connections that will be accessible from all the nearby environment environment.
open space family leisure, rest areas and places for cultural and sports activities that are compatible with ecological restoration will also be developed.
In this sense, recovery and integration of the spaces of the Safe environment for the use of all Murcia, both the river itself, its specks and margins along the urban channel, as the old oxbow lakes will be held .
In addition, the historical enclave of La Contraparada, the starting point of the canals that irrigate the Huerta de Murcia, built during the Arab domination and recently restored by the CHS, will host a Center of Huerta del Ayuntamiento, with an environmental information that will facilitate bringing people to the traditional culture linked to the uses of the river and its environmental wealth and enjoy a recreational area.
Assignment of flow recirculation system
The agreement signed today also includes the transfer to the City of system recirculation flow of the river Segura Murcia city.
Consisting of a pump downstream from the town and a pipeline of over eleven kilometers, the system can capture up to two cubic meters per second flow of Segura and treated effluent from the treatment plant Murcia East and then pour upstream, near the Contraparada.
Thus, the city may have a sheet of extra water in case of declines in flow for environment and improve the capacity of urban channel for holding sports activities, without this implying a decrease of scarce water resources that It has the Segura basin.
Source: CHS
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