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The City Council has approved in its last Full Council a motion requesting the assistance of the regional government to promote joint actions for the protection of catchment systems and water harvesting are the luminaries, the pipe and contracaño.
According to historical records the collection system groundwater comes from Puerto Lumbreras era of Muslim rule in Al-Andalus between IX-XII.
The Municipality of Puerto Lumbreras in the Municipal Council approved a motion requesting the assistance of the regional government to implement all actions necessary for the identification, protection and rehabilitation of water harvesting systems that form the barrel, contracaño and the "lights".
According to historical records collection this system comes from groundwater in times of Muslim rule in Al-Andalus between IX-XII, and later major works were undertaken in the late nineteenth century increased the collection efficiency of the waters.
The Mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, explained that "our intention with this initiative is to implement all actions necessary to protect traditional systems capture and use water as part of our cultural and historical heritage, and currently still using. "
Thus, the collecting of groundwater, which dates back to times of Muslim rule, is still used to irrigate the fields of Community Irrigation Puerto Lumbreras, the Owners of Caño Balsa Puerto Lumbreras, and the Owners of Caño and Balsa de Bejar, which has more than 4,000 hectares of irrigated land and 850 commoners.
To do this, the Municipal Council unanimously approved this initiative in addition to identifying and protecting water catchment systems, intended to promote actions to rehabilitate them.
Similarly, the Council launched last year the draft Water Route which includes a tour that allows to know the functioning of the ports, as well as the extraction of groundwater Nogalte the Rambla.
Note that since time immemorial, water and its use was a matter of concern for lumbrerenses.
In that sense, for several hundreds of years dating the existence of infiltration galleries to capture runoff Nogalte Rambla.
These buildings have vertical openings called "lights" for record access and water intake tunnel.
Thus, this term comes from the name of the municipality.
In addition, particular relevance has highlighting the historical importance of Caño Viejo for the town, which is reflected in his constant adaptation works throughout history from Moorish times.
Already in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were taken to the improvement.
Thus, the pipe collects groundwater Nogalte Rambla.
For the proper use of them is organized whole major irrigation network for its antiquity.
Finally, the Municipality of Puerto Lumbreras transfer the agreement approved in the Municipal Council at the Ministry of Agriculture and Water of Murcia, to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Segura basin, to the Commonwealth of Puerto Lumbreras Irrigation and Water Company Cano and Puerto Lumbreras raft.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras
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