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ARCHIVED - 1.5 million euros for floodwater drainage network in Los Alcázares
The Town Hall is drawing up an 80-million-euro plan to protect the town once and for all
Agreement has been reached between the regional government of Murcia and the Town Hall of Los Alcázares for the construction of a network of rainwater drainage at a cost of 1.5 million euros, it was announced last Friday, providing a glimmer of hope that action may be taken at last to protect the town from the kind of flooding it suffered last week for the third time in four months.
The announcement came after a meeting between Mario Pérez Cervera, the Mayor of Los Alcázares, and members of the Murcia government including the president, Fernando López Miras, and various ministers. A joint statement recognized that at present the AP-7 motorway acts as a retaining wall in times of flooding, with water accumulating behind it rather than running freely towards the Mar Menor from the Campo de Cartagena.
50 per cent of the 1.5-million-euro budget will be financed by the regional government and the rest by the Town Hall, and some of it will go towards re-establishing the natural course of the “Rambla de la Maraña” floodwater channel, but both Sr Pérez Cervera and Javier Celdrán, the minister for Hacienda in the government, agree that support from the national government will be needed for the problem to be solved once and for all. After five cases of flooding since December 2016 the Town Hall is drawing up a protection scheme for which the required budget will be 80 million euros, and in which 80 per cent of the work needed will correspond to the government of Spain.
That, of course, is a lot of money, but as Mario Pérez Cerva pointed out on Friday the damage suffered in the municipality due to flooding in the last 3 years and 1 month amounts to over three times that amount at approximately 250 million euros.
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