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| For this, the Murcian councilor proposes various measures such as increasing the availability of water to supply the water treatment plant of La Contraparada, an initiative unanimously supported by the Murcia City Council Plenary | The mayor of Murcia, Jos Ballesta, together with the Councilor for Sustainable Development and Huerta, Antonio Navarro, and the Councilor for Urban Development and Modernization of the Administration, Jos Guill n, held a bilateral meeting today with the president of the CHS, Mario Urrea, in which they addressed strategic measures and projects for the municipality of Murcia, whose competence corresponds to the basin body. "It was a frank and decisive meeting," said Jos Ballesta, who requested a reduction in the price of water for all Murcian families.
For this, the Murcian councilor proposed various measures such as increasing the availability of water for supply, an initiative unanimously supported by the Plenary of the Murcia City Council and that would lower the price of water to all Murcian families and extend the rate the most vulnerable groups, a rate that has increased notably in the last year due to the social crisis derived from the pandemic. In this way, and in accordance with the motion approved unanimously by the political groups in the plenary session of December 19, 2019, the extension of the water concession of the Murcia City Council has been requested from the Segura river, destined for the municipal public drinking water supply service in Murcia, going from 6,559,458 m3 to a total of 15,000,000 m3 per year, to achieve greater efficiency of the municipal water treatment plant of La Contraparada, which is at 44% of its capacity.
In this sense, we must take into account the growth of the population that the municipality of Murcia has experienced: an increase of 59.17% between 1981 and 2020. In this regard, Jos Ballesta recalled the significant number of families that currently benefit from the social water tariff, which has been increased this past year due to the health and social crisis of COVID-19.
The financial year 2020 closed with more than 5,300 families adhering to the social rate of € 5 / month, which represents a total of 17,800 people.
The total subsidized amount in 2020 has exceeded one million euros. North collector and Tabala dam On the other hand, the mayor of Murcia put on the table the need to carry out the pending investments necessary to minimize damage in the event of heavy rains in the municipal area of ??Murcia, among which are the North collector and the dam of the Rambla de Tabala.
Both actions have also been unanimously supported by the Plenary of the City Council. "The North collector is a priority to definitively put an end to the flooding problems that Murcia periodically suffers every time an episode of moderately intense rains occurs," argued Jos Ballesta, who proposed holding a new meeting of the technical commission between the administrations, with the objective of the immediate bidding and contracting of the works of the North Perimeter Interceptor Collector, a work declared of general interest of the state whose project has already been drawn up. Likewise, the Murcian councilor has referred at the meeting to the construction of the Rambla de Tabala dam, the essential solution to prevent the floods that the Murcian districts of Alquer as, El Raal, frequently suffer , Zeneta and the municipality of Beniel.
It is an infrastructure projected in 1996 by the Segura Hydrographic Confederation (CHS) that must be implemented in order to reinforce the security of the residents of this area in episodes of heavy rains. This infrastructure is part of the State Plan for Flood Risk Management.
Likewise, this solution was included in the conclusions reached by the Panel of Experts for the prevention of floods in the Region of Murcia constituted by the Community, after the Dana of September 2019.
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Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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