The City of Campos del Río joins his irrigators to claim at the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura (CHS) and the Ministry of Development in the Region of Murcia put solution to the problem that has the Mula River passing by Campos del Río .
Specifically, the irrigators of Campos del Rio and the hamlet of Los Rodeos claim that for several months a year, the river does not bring flow and attribute it to the more than 20 wells that have been made in the head and even in the course on top of it.
Another of the problems in the basin is the one that could be due to regrowth La Cierva Reservoir in about six meters with the consequent division of River Mula in two different sections in their ecosystem.
Also directly it influences the course of the river Mula and Pliego, the change of use of Pliego previously used for containment of avenues and defense and now supply irrigation.
Under these circumstances, from the Community of Irrigators of Campos del Rio and Los Rodeos with his council proposed to the CHS that takes into account the following measures to alleviate these problems and that would pass through a specific study of the water resources of the parties medium and low Mula River as it passes through Albudeite, Campos del Rio, Los Rodeos and Alguazas, because in a prior study, not the real problems of these municipalities reflects.
City Hall and irrigators also requested that appropriate and necessary for the control and regulation of wells and surface water extractions of both rivers action.
Finally, they propose that the new dam Pliego, adjust during the summer months a sanitary flow comprising cleaning ponds of dead fish and filth to avoid health problems to the population, the restoration of an ecological flow in order to save and preserve the flora and fauna and also the creation of an irrigation flow relief that allows not disappear orchard Campos del Río.
Meanwhile the mayor of Campos del Rio, Maria Jose Perez Ceron, has called urgently, to be received by the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura to try to give a definitive solution to these important issues and others who have succeeding in the channel the river passing through the town, "as was requested from the mayor some time but until now, Confederation and Ministry of Public Works have agreed to meet with us and listen to the problems of the irrigators in particular and citizens of the municipality in general, "said the first mayor of Campos del Río.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Campos del Río