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The municipal group has filed today a petition for appropriate measures to protect the Old Bridge, suffering numerous 'attacks' are taken

NOW MURCIA requires to make themselves known microbiological data of the Segura river passing through Murcia to know if it really is suitable for the development of water sports in it, as yesterday said the mayor, José Ballesta and president CHS, Miguel Angel Ródenas.

The municipal group believes that giving the green light to the development of activities in the river is an act that requires great responsibility and in no case be made without full guarantees that citizens will not run any health problem, since the use of ships (canoes, 'paddle surf' -remar of feet, etc.) can lead to falling water and inadvertent ingestion of this.

Therefore NOW MURCIA also calls for the Segura basin is made publicly responsible and on its website that the persons conducting water activities in the urban stretch of the Segura will not suffer any health condition.

Remember that throughout the route of the Segura (from its headwaters to its mouth) CHS only recognizes a point suitable for swimming, camping Puerta Moratalla, so if no other suitable places for swimming in the stretch North, it seems very unlikely that yes it is on its way through the city.

On the other hand, the municipal group welcomes the announcement of a discovery and plate 1740 in the Old Bridge, but fail to remember that this historic infrastructure is undergoing a series of 'aggression' that could endanger their correct conservation in the future.

Thus, the bridge, which is part of Pecham (Special Plan of the Historical and Architectural Complex Murcia), currently supports a number of aggressive elements such as wiring, meter boxes, painted and locks.

Also is producing a degradation of stone and metal due at least in part, placing pots on lampposts with your irrigation system, which leads to moisture, corrosion, material lost in the blocks and shields, birth proliferation of mosses and tree species within the original structure of the bridge.

For these reasons, NOW MURCIA today presented to the Department of Urban Quality to conduct a competent municipal technical report on cultural heritage, and another the Heritage Service of the Autonomous Region, on the adequacy of the current state of the bridge Pecham conditions.

We ask also that the appropriate measures to remedy the situation of deteriorating infrastructure are taken, while we remember that the plan provides for the extension of the tram to the neighborhood of Carmen, would the passage of this transport over the bridge , with the consequent risk to their conservation.

We conclude by recalling that the Senior Prosecutor of the region opened in April, following a collective complaint investigation procedures for the dredging of the River Segura in Murcia city (by the CHS), to appreciate that there may be alleged crimes embezzlement, against the environment and falsehood by works.

Source: Ahora Murcia