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On Tuesday morning was held in the area of ​​Urbanism of the administrative building of San Miguel, a new working meeting at the request of the mayor, Jose Lopez, in which municipal technicians have shared urgent lasactuaciones to perform in the Mar Menor with the presidents of the Coordinator of Organizations of Farmers and Ranchers (COAG), Vicente Carrion, and the Community of Irrigators ¿Arco Sur Mar Menor¿, Eloy Celdrán, along with the Director General of Water CARM, Andres Martinez.
During the meeting, it has addressed the need to promote, definitively, waterworks farmers Write Arco Sur Mar Menor will meet to address the effects of runoff in Mar de Cristal, Minor Islands and Grandchildren, consisting of reservoirs and pipelines that would prevent them according to the project of the Directorate General of Water of the Autonomous Community.
It works urgently to be launched this month of August, as usual, in September, heavy rains and lightning storms, and is a priority that they do not drag towards the Mar Menor and its developments, sludge and sludge from adjacent farms.
more than a month ago that the City of Cartagena requested to be forwarded projected according to the guidelines of the Directorate General of Water (DGA) of the CARM performance.
At the meeting this morning, it has announced the approval of the City Council presented the project last Thursday, which will not require a municipal license.
Jose Lopez explained that the Mar Menor can not face further tows or discharges, but they can suffer them neighbors.
This we clear the City Council, the prosecutor, residents and farmers.
The mayor added that is satisfactory to the Director General of Water has advised us that are already advanced in processing and works this August will begin, because until now it seemed that the only people who seem to be unaware of the risk and their responsibilities were the leaders of the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura and the CARM, who have vacillated on solutions increasing thereby the risks to the Mar Menor and neighbors.
STUDY PROPOSALS
It has also studied the alternatives proposed by farmers and CARM, passing through a pipe 5 kilometers that the DGA will build from the promenade Albujón to facilities Arco Sur to allow connection with the desalination of Cape Palos place from which would be made, if necessary, discharges the Mediterranean Sea and the Mar Menor not.
It is recalled that the Community of Irrigators has a discharge permit dating from 2006.
The City Council, through the mayor, has offered the emissary, municipally owned, so that farmers have alternative once the Hydrographic Confederation has closed pipes to the promenade of the Albujón.
In this regard, the president of COAG said that we know that the confederation has turned a deaf ear to our demands;
It has not solved the problem.
In fact, he built kilometers of salmoroducto paid with public money, which sealed the same now agreed.
Farmers will pay a very high price for hasty decisions.
THE CITY COUNCIL WILL BE ALL THAT OUR SKILLS
In this sense, Lopez said that City Hall will do everything in our powers, encouraging other governments to do the same.
As a first step, if all legal and environmental procedures are met, we have put at the disposal of farmers the emissary of the industrial water treatment plant (WWTP) of Cabo de Palos, insisting farmers and DGA on the need to act coordinated so that the solutions are technically and legally feasible.
Carrion thanked the willingness of local and regional administrations stating that we are not satisfied because we have an urgent need for water.
We do not have water transfer and administrative procedures are long.
There is willingness and want solutions now.
MORNING MEETING IN MURCIA ADMINISTRATIONS INVOLVED
At the request of the mayor, the parties have been emplaced at a meeting in Murcia to be held tomorrow Wednesday at the headquarters of the Directorate General of Quality and Environmental Assessment to know the technical details of the action to be executed in the desalination of Arco Sur, meeting on which Lopez has stressed the need to make an appointment all administrations and ministries involved.
We can not afford more inoperative meetings.
Farmers deserve Cartagena field solution to their activity and quick responses because they have used empty content campaigns for years and now we will not consent to abandon them to their fate.
We are aware that have defaulted on landfill for years.
I myself denounced in August 2015, but have done so with the consent of the Confederation and the CARM.
So we want a legal and useful solution that maintains the important agricultural activity in the region without harming the Mar Menor, has completed the first mayor.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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