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- Councilwoman Alicia Morales has gone to the scene and has given notice to the Local Police, who has appeared in the place.
The mayor, in addition, has contacted by telephone with the head of the Office of the Huerta, of the Department of Urbanism, Environment, Water and Vegetable Garden
- Precisely Now Murcia is going to take to the Plenary Session of the City Council of the month of November, which is held on Thursday, that the City Council prepare a special Plan for the protection of the Traditional Irrigation Network, to guarantee its protection and safeguard
NOW MURCIA denounces that this morning has begun the tubing of the last open section of the Acequia de la Arboleja, in the Los Chornos lane.
The councilor Alicia Morales, who has come to the scene, says "that this attempt against our traditional irrigation network is occurring, once again, in the face of the passivity of the City of Murcia and with the connivance of the Board of Landowners, that carries out meetings without any publicity or transparency ".
The spokeswoman of Now Murcia has given notice to the Local Police, who has appeared in the place, and has contacted by telephone with the head of the Office of the Huerta, the Department of Urban Planning, Environment, Water and Garden.
Morales criticizes that the mayor Ballesta "allows to skip the General Urban Plan of Murcia (PGOU) and European regulations to end with a historical and cultural heritage of the municipality that is millenarian and irreplaceable.The PP allows it to be buried with concrete pipes A fundamental element of our Huerta, the acequias, they can not talk about the fact that their government is developing a Plan de la Huerta when they are not even able to protect the traditional irrigation network. "
On the other hand, the councilor Angeles Micol denounces that "the Board of Landowners continues holding meetings of the heirs in secret in which he authorizes himself the ducting of ditches, against the ordinances of the Huerta and the PGOU".
"The owners of the farms, with the certificate of that meeting and with a simple statement submitted to the Department of Urban Planning," says Micol, "are launched at the beginning of the tubing acequias.The works are carried out without a project, because they take refuge in a simple responsible declaration as if it were a minor work, placing pipes and destroying the channels and quijeros with all the vegetation and associated fauna, and this despite being treated, in numerous occasions, of habitats of Community Interest ".
Micol points out that the mode of action of those who perform the tubing, "precipitated to the maximum to get away with it, causes that when the citizen alarm goes off, the work has already begun, so that between the filing of the complaint, decrees the paralysis and acts from Urbanism, the work is already finished.This is, therefore, a policy of faits accomplishes.
Alicia Morales denounces that with the tubing "the Community Interest Habitats that existed in that channel are destroyed and all the vegetation and associated fauna that could have protection is razed, like elms or poplars." Then it only remains to demand the restitution of the infringed legality, It is a long and tedious process that ends up ending in nothing.This is how they are ending the irrigation network of more than 1,000 years of Murcia's history, despite the fact that it is illegal to destroy the acequias and azarbes of our Huerta " .
Precisely Now Murcia is going to take to the Plenary Session of the City Council of the month of November, which is held on Thursday, that the City Council prepare a special Plan for the protection of the Traditional Irrigation Network, to guarantee its protection and safeguard.
Source: Ahora Murcia
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