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The association considers these channels of general interest and believes necessary the collaboration of the municipalities of Murcia, Santomera, Beniel and Alcantarilla in their conservation.
Yesterday, July 29, the Huerta Viva association organized a tour of one of the few open-air sections of the Casillas ditch in the orchard of Llano de Brujas.
Twenty people who attended the event were able to learn about the cultural, environmental and landscape values ​​that these ancient irrigation channels contain.
Figs, laurels, as well as several centuries-old bananas and mulberry trees grow on the banks of this section.
There are also protected species of poplars, elms and willows.
These groves were planted by the ancient orchards on the banks of the ditches so that the roots held the earth, creating a rich ecosystem linked to water where aquatic species and insectivorous birds live very beneficial for agriculture.
Next to the riverbed there is still a waterway that drew water from a well with the help of Murcian cows and donkeys.
This was told to the group by a neighbor of Cabecicos who was sitting in the fresco of the ditch and an old banana, the same that they planted many years ago to shade the animals that moved the aceña.
At present this function is made by an engine.
Despite these values, sections such as the Casillas ditch are in danger of disappearing.
Several neighbors have warned about the intentions of tubing it, leaving the valuable garden turned into a simple dry and lifeless road.
The Board of Landowners of the Huerta de Murcia justifies the pipelines in order to improve irrigation, but the reality is that most of the ditches and azarbes are in complete abandonment and lack of vigilance to avoid spills, as could be seen in The whole tour
Coins are no longer made, nor maintenance work as they have been done for more than a thousand years.
The association took the opportunity to claim the protection and conservation of the traditional irrigation network that extends throughout the Huerta, denouncing that more than half of the channels have been piped in the last 30 years.
This entails a tremendous loss of biodiversity, heritage elements and a resource of great importance in the regulation of the microclimate in the valley of Murcia, with a temperature drop of 3 ° to 5 °.
To which it is necessary to add, that this network to open sky also works like system of drainage in case of torrential rains.
Huerta Viva asks the Board of Landowners a change of mentality, and that they know how to appreciate the environmental and cultural values ​​that the irrigation network holds and that are part of the general interest of all citizens.
Therefore, the association also asks the municipalities of Murcia, Santomera, Beniel and Alcantarilla an effort to protect this ancient network and its collaboration in environmental improvement, management and maintenance.
Source: Huerta Viva
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