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The mayor urged the head of Agriculture to hold an urgent meeting in view of the delays of the Special Plan that would allow the construction of collectors in the North.
The mayor already asked the minister for a meeting in December, after the heavy rains, and this morning has sent back a detailed report of the damages produced yesterday in Murcia.
"We can not wait any longer and the commitment made by the Ministry with the city of Murcia for the execution of the Special Plan of Hydraulic Infrastructures must be executed immediately," he said.
The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, recalled today, following the intense rains registered yesterday, that "Murcia has pending a Special Plan of Hydraulic Infrastructures, whose execution corresponds to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fishing, Food and Environment."
"The situation caused by the rains of last December and the episode that we lived yesterday would not have occurred if these infrastructures were built in the city of Murcia," argued the mayor.
"Last December, following the rains of the weekend of 17, 18 and 19 December, I addressed a letter to the Minister of Agriculture, informing him of the damages suffered in Murcia and demanding that he fulfill the commitments made with the city , Under that Special Plan of Hydraulic Infrastructures, which would solve the problems in the North zone, "said José Ballesta, who attended this morning the 'Meeting for the Mediterranean Corridor'.
"Yesterday we returned to suffer the same in the municipality," lamented the first mayor, who insisted that "we can not be the same as our grandparents and great-grandparents who looked at the sky when it turned gray, fearing that the river overflowed, that the ramblas Overflow, that our fields and orchards would be flooded and even our homes would be flooded. "
"For this reason," continued the mayor, "this morning I have returned to inform the minister of what happened in Murcia and I have sent a detailed report of the damage caused, because although there is an appointment already arranged for the next meeting April, I have told you that we can not wait any longer and that, of course, that commitment that has been acquired with the city of Murcia for the execution of the Special Hydraulic Infrastructure Plan to be developed by the Ministry must be implemented immediately. "
The City Council will act on its own in ramblas and roads
He also informed that "we, through the Department of Development, in collaboration with the Department of Urbanism, we will carry out a series of palliative works if, finally, the budgets of 2017 are approved, in which we are going To act on roads, roads and other elements to alleviate the effects of rains, "although he stressed that" without this Special Plan and the collectors of the North we run the risk that this will happen again whenever it rains in the city " .
Delays in priority infrastructures for Murcia
In the context of the 'Meeting for the Mediterranean Corridor', José Ballesta also wanted to influence the fact that "Murcia Region is the only Autonomous Community that does not have a single kilometer of railroad track unfolded and electrified" and added that "At the moment there are uncertainties about the arrival date of the high speed to the city of Murcia, when we are the seventh capital of Spain and there are 30 cities that enjoy high speed and 70% of the Spanish population has access to Her right now. "
"It may not be today the day to remember past wrongs or unfulfilled commitments, but it should not be forgotten that the Mediterranean motorway was for many years stopped in the city of Alicante and had to wait at the end of the 20th century to reach the city of Murcia.
Also the motorway of Madrid was many years stopped in Albacete and was not until already entered the 21st century when it arrived at Murcia ", it manifested.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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