Totana City Council and the Community of Irrigators of this county have organized an informational meeting on Tuesday, the 29th, at 20:00 pm in the auditorium of the entity commoner (Calle La Balsa, 6) to to give an account of the steps taken to solve the so-called consolidated irrigation Totana, specifically rural El Raiguero, The Paretón and La Huerta.
Historical claim
The Council already announced several weeks ago that vindicate to the Segura basin more legal cover irrigation wells for agricultural processing societies (SAT) that are outside the irrigation perimeter of the transfer.
The Mayor of Totana, Isabel Maria Sanchez, is setting a joint strategy with the directors of the Community Irrigation Totana and affected agrarian societies to address this "historical problem" that has existed for many years, and that at the last legislature attempted to solve.
The town of Totana irrigation water supplies in the area of ​​transfer from corresponding Guadalentin riverbed north of the municipality towards the town and the Sierra de Espuna-and one from the river to the lower districts The Paretón and The Raiguero.
It is this latter area is not supplied or you can water the transfer because it is outside the irrigation perimeter which are receiving sanctions Segura basin by extracting more water from wells that are authorized for the maintenance of their crops.
The mayor already put, after the summer, this matter before the President of CHS, Michelangelo Ródenas, and the Water Board of the agency problems that are having these irrigators Guadalentin right river passing through Totana, and to support the SAT's that are outside the perimeter also in the highlands of the municipality.
Apparently, the irrigators are receiving in recent months sanctions for making a private use of irrigation water by the corresponding damage to public water.
With the expansion of this field of irrigation, it will try to solve a historical problem in the municipality with which to better serve farmers supply of these agricultural areas Totana.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana