The City of Campos del Río reports the celebration in the afternoon yesterday, a town meeting where more than 40 residents of the municipality participated with the aim of sharing the actions together in a coordinated manner will be carried out in runway defense Mula river passing through the town of Campos del Río.
The meeting which was attended by the mayor of Campos del Rio, Maria Jose Perez Ceron along with other councilors of the government team, decided to create the platform in defense Runway Mula river passing by Campos del Río.
This Platform in participating neighbors and members of the Community of Irrigators of Campos del Rio and Los Rodeos, supported campero consistory and its mission is to defend against the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura (CHS) the interests of the irrigators and and by extension all citizens of Campos del Rio in what concerns the preservation of good condition of the riverbed on its way through the town.
In this way the platform endorses the claims of the Community of Irrigators and the City Council who have been demanding the immediate solutions to various problems like that for several months a year, the river does not bring flow and attribute Confederation to the more than 20 wells that have been made in the head and even in the upper reaches 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.
A specific study of the water resources of the middle and lower parts of the Mula River as it passes through Albudeite, Campos del Rio, Los Rodeos and Alguazas, since in a study conducted earlier, it is not the real problems of these municipalities reflects .
Take appropriate and necessary for the control and regulation of wells and surface water extractions of both rivers measures.
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.
Finally it was agreed between the neighbors, coordinated from the platform, to continue the collection of signatures among campers and jackets, and also in the city of Murcia, as well as claim in writing the solution to this problem and present these signatures to the Hydrographic Confederation Segura, among other measures that will be contemplating as CHS response.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Campos del Río