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| The Association AJVA has been denouncing since early 2019 the accumulation of garbage, plant remains and decomposing remains in this millennial riverbed, which is initiated as BIC | The General Directorate of Cultural Assets has ordered "the maintenance in decent conditions" of this major irrigation channel, as well as "the immediate cleaning of the Barreras irrigation channel as it passes through the Oliver Mill", since the complaint "is fully justified" and continues "affecting the BIC".AJVA requires that, as stated in the provision of the autonomous body, if the deadlines of the ordered measures are not met, economic sanctions of 4 times the cost of cleaning are applied, since it is a situation that has been repeating itself since 2008, when managed to paralyze the demolition of Oliver's mill"Allowing for more than a decade the situation of this natural and monumental space to be a mountain of garbage, rubble, dead animals and decomposing remains, is proof of the lack of care for our cultural heritage, as well as the ineffective vigilance by administrations, especially those in charge of heritage "The General Directorate of Cultural Assets has recognized that the complaint by the AJVA association about the accumulation of garbage, decomposing remains and dead animals in the Alquibla or Barreras main canal, next to Oliver's mill, "is fully justified as it is observed that the dirt accumulated in the Barreras canal remained in place, obstructing the flow of water and affecting the BIC.

"The autonomous body with competences in the field of cultural heritage, framed in the Ministry of Education and Culture, thus responds to the complaints registered last November, which are added to various writings and requirements that this entity has been registering for years by the state of neglect and abandonment of this millennial channel of the irrigation network of the Huerta de Murcia, as well as the situation of the centennial Oliver mill and its surroundings, whose construction work from the s.

XVIII attempted to shoot down in Aljucer in 2008.The AJVA Association demanded that Cultural Assets, being also the largest irrigation channel protected as a Property of Cultural Interest (BIC) with the category of Place of Ethnographic Interest, the situation of the channel be attested by the regional technicians, for the application of the precepts included in the Cultural Heritage Law of the Region of Murcia (LPCRM).The Cultural Assets brief recently notified to this association expressly states that, having visited the site, and in view of the evidence provided in the entity's complaint and the provisions of the LPCRM on the obligations of holders of cultural property and on the Administrative offenses regarding the protection of cultural heritage:"The presence of the remains of pruning, rubbish, reeds, dead animals, etc., in the course of the Barreras irrigation channel as it passes through the Oliver Mill, is not compatible with article 8 of Cultural Heritage Law 4/2007 of the Region of Murcia, so that the owners of said infrastructure are obliged to maintain it in conditions worthy of it, ...

".The requirement of the Ministry of Culture also indicates that the cleaning must be done within a month, demonstrating that it is carried out and "providing graphic documentation to support said intervention." The writers of Cultural Assets finalize the writing expressly stating that:"In the event that the cleaning has not been carried out within the granted period, the sanctioning proceedings may be initiated for not having fulfilled the obligations provided for in Article 8 of Law 4/2007 on the Cultural Heritage of the Region of Murcia."Finally, and after the notification received in this entity, we want to express that: "at AJVA we are satisfied that Culture agrees with us and certifies that our complaint is 'fully justified', but we consider the inspection work carried out to be completely insufficient the cultural assets of our Huerta ", since" a proactive vigilance of the huertano heritage and of the irrigation ditches is required, which despite being protected as BIC as a precaution, shows an image of neglect, abandonment and ruin that is not their own or that of the Developing countries".From AJVA we also want to point out that "we personally invite the Director General of Cultural Assets, Rafael Gómez Carrasco, and the Minister of Education and Culture, Esperanza Moreno, to visit with us the section of the main channel of Barreras from the Molino del Rey to Oliver's mill, and they will be able to verify his Dantesque image more typical of a war zone or an unpopulated one, and how it takes a determined and courageous intervention by the administrations to protect this BIC ".

Source: Asociación AJVA