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-From the month of February Now Murcia waits for the answer to your request on the beginning of the elaboration of the Special Plan of Flood Prevention that the city council have the obligation to elaborate and approve as part of the Environmental Vigilance Program

- Faced with this situation Ballesta launches the smoke screen of all years announcing that it creates a technical commission to allocate the collector of the North zone

NOW MURCIA criticizes that "the torrential rainy season comes again to the municipality, with the consequent danger of flooding, and again from the consistory governed by the mayor Ballesta and his team the only thing they propose is the creation of a technical commission".

For the councilor Angeles Micol, "in this way what we say to Murcia is that in case of flooding we will be defenseless, since there is nothing planned or infrastructure to avoid damage, only a technical committee." It seems that this is for the mayor Crossbow is enough. "

According to Micol, "Ballesta and his Popular Party team demonstrate that they have never understood that the municipality of Murcia and its capital are in a high risk zone due to floods in torrential or intense rains. various ramblas and ramblizos that cross its territory ".

To this situation we must add, says the mayor, "that the urban development without control executed in recent decades has led to the waterproofing of millions of square meters, and the ducting ditches, which made their role as large water drainage channels and detour to the river. "

"To the foregoing," he says, "the building joins without taking into account the natural path of ramblas and ramblizos, which when it rains torrentially or intensely claim their land that is now occupied by constructions, so that the water that before it ran safely, now it swirls forming a raft and entering homes and premises. "

For the councilor, "the Popular Party of the municipality not only does not offer solutions to the existing problem, but also has aggravated it with the lack of an adequate urban planning, in which the construction of collectors should have been prior to the authorization to build households".

The risk of flooding in the municipality of Murcia is something that when the General Plan of Urban Planning (PGOU) was drawn up in 2001 was taken into account establishing the obligation to draw up and approve a Special Flood Prevention Plan for the municipality, "that It should be in operation as early as 2002, "says Angeles Micol," in a way that was prior to the planned urban development. "

In February of this year Murcia now presented a motion highlighting these circumstances in the Plenary Session of the City of Murcia, and requested in writing that the mayor Ballesta inform about the formalization of the plan to prevent flooding in the municipality (which should be part of the Environmental Monitoring Program that for almost a year now Murcia has not stopped demanding).

To day of today the mayor has not even answered to the request of Ahora Murcia, making clear that this issue of the prevention of dangerous floods in Murcia does not interest him.

"We are entering the fall of 2018 and in the municipality we do not have the aforementioned Special Plan for Flood Prevention or anything like it", denounces the councilor.

"We also do not have the collector built in the northern part of the city to avoid the damages caused by the dangerous ravines of Espinardo, Churra and Cabezo de Torres." These facts show that the risk to their citizens in case of heavy rains is not Mayor Ballesta's agenda as an issue that matters. "

NOW MURCIA

Source: Ahora Murcia