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The Minister of Agriculture and Water, Antonio Cerdá, and the mayor of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara, today introduced a comprehensive prevention plan and fire management Regional Park-Carrascoy Valley, which have an investment of EUR 1,890,000 during the period 2009-2012.
The Plan's main objectives are to analyze the current risk of forest fires, awareness and establish guidelines for reconciling interests (with particular emphasis on the surrounding urban areas and crosses the park) and creating a deterrent surveillance program and improve infrastructure for protection against forest fires.
The counselor said that the Regional Park-Carrascoy Valley is "one of our most emblematic."
It has an area of 17,410 hectares covering the municipalities of Murcia, Alhama de Murcia and Fuente Alamo.
It is also declared Site of Community Importance (SCI) and Special Protection Area for Birds (SPA).
The vegetation is predominantly pine (Pinus halepensis) and between the species of shrub rosemary, Kermes, dawn, black hawthorn and grasses such as esparto.
Among its wildlife birds are the largest group, with the presence of species like the Owl, Golden Eagle, Peregrine Falcon, Short-toed and Bonelli's Eagle, among others.
It also highlights the presence of mammals such as dormice, wild cat, badger and squirrel as well as six species of amphibians and 12 reptiles.
Cerda stated that, by virtue of his urban park, "Mount Valley is an area for public use that has significant environmental facilities, as it is the most visited Regional Park, with a million and half visitors a year."
The minister recalled that in the period 1983-2006 occurred in the park a total of 168 fires.
35 percent of them were motivated by human negligence and 24 percent were intentional.
Most fires occurred in July (22 percent), June and August (20 percent) and September (12 percent).
69 percent of the Regional Park has a high danger of forest fires due to climatic conditions, type of vegetation and slopes that exist in this area.
Aspects of Plan
The Department has established three deterrent surveillance routes, with different branches, along the main sites of the Regional Park.
A total of 53'7 will travel miles zones of El Valle, Sierra de El Puerto and Majal Blanco, members of Civil Protection in collaboration with Environmental Agents.
Also, access points to the mountain is monitored and reported on the potential risks of forest fires during the high risk season will close some roads from the mountain to prevent motorized vehicle access.
The Department has codified the main road inside the park in order to generate the backbone of a network and allow access to the most dangerous.
It will improve 26 kilometers of roads and open up four miles of new roads in the area Carrascoy.
Inventories have also been made of existing water points in the Park could be used in case of forest fires and fire hydrants belonging to the municipal Torreguil, El Palmar, La Alberca, Santo Angelo, Algezares, Los Garres and San José de la Montaña.
The Ministry will build five new water reservoirs, 100,000 liters of capacity, half buried, to supply the land means, to be located in the Cerrillos, saw the port, the Majal Blanco, Las Navetas and Carrascoy near the peak.
Also encouraged the installation of fire hydrants in the irrigation ponds of more than 75 cubic meters and easy access to land means near the park.
Firewalls Areas
The plan includes creating a firewall area network 43 kilometers long, which will occupy an area of 300 hectares and having a higher density in the area of El Valle, where the fire risk is higher.
Also, existing firewalls will adapt the design of the fire areas by assuming a lower impact on the landscape.
Also develop a network of perimeter firebreaks 15.5 miles within the boundaries of urbanized areas, which protect the nuclei located in the Regional Park boundary, such as Algezares, Teatinos, La Alberca and near the Cigarrón.
On the margins of the main road running through the Park will build a network of auxiliary runway strip of 60 kilometers (24 new strips in an area of 360 hectares), to hinder the spread of fire and reduce the risk posed to the vials start forest fires.
Source: CARM
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