M ª Ángeles Tunisia has held a first meeting with the president of the CHS, Michelangelo Ródenas, which have been analyzed in watershed projects under development in the municipality.
The Confederation has already invested 1.3 million euros in the recovery of the channel of the Rambla de Nogalte and other watercourses in the municipality.
The mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, M ª Ángeles Tunisia, held a first meeting with the president of the Segura basin, Michelangelo Ródenas, with whom he discussed the planned actions in watershed in the municipality as well as the projects being developed after the floods last year.
The Mayor, Maria Angeles Tunisia, said that "the city and the Segura basin work together to tackle new projects and investments in the city to suit the current needs of the town in basin".
Moreover, Tunisia recalled that "to Puerto Lumbreras projects on water are vital to continue developing the primary sector of the municipality that constitutes one of the main drivers of the local economy, representing over 55% of the working population of the municipality ".
On the other hand, have addressed the actions and projects that have been conducted in the municipality after the flood last year.
Thus, the technicians of the basin organization are planning to build a work definitively resolving the tragic consequences.
To this end it provides for the construction of a dam capable of laminar flow more than 2,000 cubic meters per second, equivalent to the strip that brought the bed of the ravine on September 28, 2012.
At the same time, the work to store water that can be used in agriculture.
Similarly, the agency has initiated basin hydrological correction five works at the head of the Rambla de Nogalte, in the town of Velez Rubio Almeria, which will provide an improved flood control downstream causing damage in municipalities as Lorca and Puerto Lumbreras and Pulpí (Almería), among others.
With a total budget of 8.2 million euros, are co-financed by ERDF funds from the European Union and include the construction of a total of 11 small dams.
These actions are aimed at the correction and stabilization of torrential channels in order to control the processes of erosion, transport and deposition, thus reducing circulating solids flows and regulate fluid flow therein, improving safety.
Restoration of the channel in Puerto Lumbreras
On the other hand, the Confederation has already invested 1.3 million euros in the recovery of the course of the Rambla de Nogalte and other watercourses in the municipality lumbrerense damaged by flooding.
First, as a matter of urgency, the CHS completed work on two sections of the Rambla de Nogalte, in the urban area and upstream.
Work on the section that crosses the population consisted of riverbed protection works by retrieving rakes.
Regarding the upper stretch, breakwaters have been placed, protected and consolidated margins slopes.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras