The Mayor of Totana, Isabel Maria Sanchez, recently met with President of Segura basin, Miguel Ăngel Ródenas, in order to promote the revival of the dam project Lébor this infrastructure and avoid damage to result of heavy rainfall.
The councilor went, accompanied by the mayor of Agriculture, Diego Munoz, the Plenum of the Consistory for the session last October, which was approved unanimously to ask the basin organization building and channeling Lébor Dam to prevent the incidence of avenues for these temporary effects and enable reuse of flows.
Sanchez explained that the hydraulic regime basins in natural, as in the case of Totana, offer elements of risk that can have consequences for the population and their property.
Among these, the area covered by the Rambla de Lebor often causes extensive damage on totanero field.
The CHS corporate resume agreed that the construction project Lébor Dam to reduce the incidence of flood flows from the sub-basins of the upper lateral half Guadalentín River on the plains of Lorca and Totana, specifically those produced by the Rambla de Lebor, downstream from the junction of the A-7.
In fact, there is a party of the State Budget for 2013 of around 75 million euros earmarked for the implementation of infrastructure of this nature in the region.
Collecting rainwater for use
The City Council, the Community Irrigation and Autonomous Totana want to boost construction projects of various reservoirs that would collect water from the wadis of the Cemetery, The Holy and pears, traversing the village, and would allow its use for crop irrigation in Totana.
In principle, the Consistory cede land for the implementation of infrastructure finance User Community, which would be the body commoner would use the rainwater for irrigation, and count on the collaboration of the Ministry of Agriculture and Water, which would assume the cost junctions of the project.
These projects have the dual purpose of preventing the damage occurred in cycles due to torrential rains caused the overflowing of wadis, and enable subsequent reuse water storage in agricultural areas of Totana.
