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Hidrogea and ANSE collaborate together in order to preserve the environment of the lagoons of treated water located in the WWTP Cabezo Beaza.

This involves making activities including monitoring and protection of flora and fauna, monitoring of the avifauna of the treatment plant by volunteers and technicians ANSE, especially water birds, including white-headed duck, endangered species .

This morning the Director of HIDROGEA, Francisco Javier Ybarra Moreno, and the President of ANSE, Chema Catarineu Guillen, visited the facilities to do a review of these activities and develop other activities of nature conservation.

WWTP Cabezo de Beaza purifies water from the city of Cartagena, which is stored in ponds next to the treatment plant, to be used for irrigation in the Campo de Cartagena.

Old maturation ponds of the former treatment plant lagoons now operating as naturalized lagoons, which attract hundreds of birds throughout the year, most notably the white-headed duck, duck billed endangered worldwide, and it gets concentrated in the lakes during the winter to about 300 copies, which account for 6-7% of the European population, or what is the same, about 3-4% of the world population, which will It provides these gaps great importance for the conservation of this species.

In this sense, Francisco Javier Ibarra Moreno, Director of HIDROGEA, as Chema Catarineu Guillen, president of ANSE, agree on the responsibility of maintaining proper water treatment, ensuring the highest possible quality for agricultural irrigation and conservation lagoons hosting such an important population of white-headed duck and hundreds of birds like the spoon duck, mallard, curlew, the cigüeñuela and many others, who use loopholes in the Cabezo Beaza during the winter, on their migratory journeys and / or breeding ground, and dozens of other species of small birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians found in the lagoons of Cabezo Beaza a quiet place to develop their life cycles.

Among the actions that are intended to implement are installing floating platforms with aquatic vegetation that enables reproduction of waterbird away from predators such as cats or foxes, replacing invasive plant exotic species such as cat's claw and pigeon pea, for native species such as mastic, palm, etc., and outreach and environmental education closer to students and the general public the natural values ​​of the gaps resulting from an adequate quality of the treated water and the tranquility of the lakes being in an enclosure with restricted visitors access.

Source: Hidrogea / ANSE