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Huerta Viva denounces contamination of the Benipotrox ditch (23/11/2016)

The association warns that the poor state of conservation of many channels of the historic irrigation network and water pollution by illegal dumping is not only an attack on cultural and natural heritage, but also a crime against public health.

The association Huerta Viva is carrying out a study on the state in which the irrigation network of the orchard of Murcia is located in order to make environmental recovery proposals, detecting numerous sections where the channels are in a lamentable state and more typical of Countries where there is no environmental or public health legislation.

The ditches and azarbes of the orchard of Murcia decades ago were a hive of life, but the contamination of the waters of the river Segura, the spills, and the lack of maintenance, finished with all this wealth until turning the channels of irrigation in channels malodorous And without life.

The improvement of the water quality of the river, due to the expansion of the sanitation network and the installation of water treatment plants, has allowed in the last years some species that until now disappeared in the network of irrigation again to be seen, as the barbeque , The leprous tortoise and the eel.

Other species of great value, such as fartet, have more complicated their reintroduction due to the existence of invasive species.

Despite this good news, the channels continue to be in a state of complete degradation due to the continuity of illegal dumping from homes and industries, the use of ditches to throw garbage, and the elimination of riparian vegetation through Felling and herbicides.

All this is aggravated by the lack of protection and conservation measures that Murcia City Council, the Landowners' Council, the Segura Hydrographic Confederation and the Ministry of Health should put in place for having competence in this matter.

It should be noted that many areas of the Huerta lack sewerage despite the fact that the neighbors pay their taxes, seeing themselves forced to pour the drains into the irrigation channels.

Other neighbors use septic tanks, being possible that most of them are not homologated and produce leaks to the waters of the subsoil.

Faced with this situation and the passivity of the City Council, in recent years the Board of Landowners has chosen as a solution for the burial of the channels.

For Huerta Viva, this has never been a solution, since it involves hiding the garbage under the carpet, aggravating the problem of poor water quality due to lack of oxygenation and the possibility of illegal spills without them being visible, To add to the desertification process, the elimination of biodiversity and the destruction of the cultural and landscape heritage that cherish the irrigation channels.

In the study being carried out by Huerta Viva, stretches have been detected where the state of the channels is alarming, as is the case of the Benipotrox ditch between the districts of Zarandona and Monteagudo, converted into a true sewer system and in breach of environmental regulations And sanitation without it seems that there are responsible, taking into account that these waters are used for the irrigation of food.

The association also draws attention to how it is possible that communal property channels have been cased and occupied in some sections by factories and scrapping, when it is assumed that the Junta de Hacendados has procuradores who are dedicated to its conservation and surveillance.

Huerta Viva asks the City Council to investigate possible spills in these and other channels, and urgently implement measures to avoid them, as well as environmental regeneration projects to circulate clean water and restore their old natural wealth.

In the same way, it should investigate how the occupations of the channels have occurred and, if they are illegal, they are required to be returned.

In this line, the association has begun drafting for the Municipal Council of Zarandona a proposal to recover and put into value a section of the azarbe of Monteagudo mentioned in documents of the eleventh century, using the margin of this old channel as a green path to Monteagudo.

Source: Agencias

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