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Let us change Murcia has shown its surprise at the announcement by the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura (CHS) to carry out a new dredging in the Segura river channel as it passes through the capital just three years after the last and "without there being any causes Justify this work from the environmental point of view, nor from security. "
It is recalled from the municipal training that in the case of dredging carried out in 2014, it was announced by CHS officials that a new dredging would not be necessary in a minimum period of 10 years, reason why "it surprises that now This kind of works will be put back without any kind of report. "
"It is strange that being the city of Murcia is one of the areas where the channel has greater drainage capacity, as it was verified in the episode of December 2016, when the river was further from overflowing, which happened in other sections , Again be the target of dredging, "said Ginés Mirón, Huerta group and Model City.
Mirón has denounced that funds are being used for emergency repairs for the damages caused by the rains last December in actions that have nothing to do with this purpose, while there are other areas of the municipality as the Murcia field, where damages Were much larger, for which investment is scarcely contemplated.
He also regretted that the dredging carried out 3 years ago, far from improving the environmental quality of the river as it passed through Murcia, was a "clear detriment" to the flora and fauna of the area, with a clear decrease in the presence of fish and Of birds as the heron, the azulón, the redfish and the coot, according to different studies.
For Mirón, the dredging activity can not be cited as an environmental recovery, because it is an intervention that is against the precepts of the National Strategy for Restoration of Rivers and the Water Framework Directive itself.
Some of the actions of the previous dredging as the improvement for the habitat of the bats, do not stop being "maquillaje", for a hard, expensive and ineffective action, that also worsens the ecological state of the river, has sustained in the respect.
Regarding the announcement of the CHS, has considered that demonstrates a "clear lack" of coordination with the City of Murcia and the Murcia River project.
"It seems to us a contradiction that from the consistory the idea of ​​the river Segura is sold as a living space and at the same time dredging is being carried out, what they do precisely is to damage the biodiversity of this section."
Therefore, Cambiemos Murcia has appealed to social organizations, political parties and platforms that already in 2014 opposed the dredging of the river to show again the rejection of this type of works that involve "an unjustified waste of public money and a Attack on the safe environmental wealth of the river. "
In addition, he has warned that he will take a motion to the next plenary to avoid dredging, in which case the CHS has not yet proceeded to do so.
Source: Cambiemos Murcia
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