As explained today Sergio Ramos, councilman of Cambiemos Murcia, "the river is so important for our municipality that can not act on it from isolated proposals, as the government team with Murcia River, but needs a recovery plan Of the channel to ten years seen that counts on the consensus of the citizenship ".
From Cambiemos Murcia, they are betting on an integral recovery project of the Segura, designed as a result of a participatory process open to the whole municipality and which includes both experts and associations and unorganized citizenship.
In this sense, the municipal training will present a motion in the plenary session next Thursday to urge that a Special Plan for the Recovery of the Segura River, consisting of at least two phases, be put in place;
One in which proposals are collected and another in which different options designed from these proposals can be voted on.
In addition, explained the mayor, they will ask "not to make any non-urgent investment in the riverbed until the Plan is not available."
According to Ramos, in the days of "Environmental rehabilitation of urban rivers", organized by the City of Murcia and the University Institute of Water and the Environment of the UMU, experts in the matter made clear that, compared to pharaonic projects, That Murcia needs is a true ecological rehabilitation, which results in the integration of the channel into the social life of the municipality.
"The river deserves more than an urban project whose scope of action is only the urban area," continued the councilman, who recalled that in these days he emphasized the potential that could have the real recovery of the meanders, Both to alleviate the effects of floods and for their use by the inhabitants of the surrounding districts. "
Source: Cambiemos Murcia