The Mayor of Totana, Isabel Maria Sanchez Ruiz, has requested the President of the Autonomous Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, to mediate with the Ministry of Agriculture, and the actual Segura basin (CHS) to regularize the dry land, expanding irrigation area established in this municipality.
The councilor has addressed this issue in the course of an institutional meeting held with the president of the regional government in the Palacio de San Esteban, so that the dry land where irrigation has been cultivating pass, and they are generating sanctions farmers in the lower districts, as the Paretón and The Raiguero, and high de La Huerta and La Sierra, respectively.
The meeting was also attended by the municipal spokesman Chair Councillor David Amoros Lopez.
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.
It is this latter area, which covers an area of ​​approximately 6,000 hectares, which is not supplied or you can water the transfer because it is outside the irrigation perimeter, whose owners have been receiving sanctions CHS remove more water from the wells which are authorized for the maintenance of their crops.
With the expansion of this field of irrigation, it is intended to solve a historical problem in the municipality with which to better serve farmers supply of these agricultural areas Totana.
The mayor reported that the town of Totana sustains its productive economy in a very high percentage in agriculture, so it is necessary to expand the irrigation area established by modifying the irrigation perimeter.
General Plan Municipal Urban
Another of the issues have been addressed during the meeting is the processing status of the document General Urban Plan of Totana and technical work being carried out together with the Autonomous Region for final approval.
In December 2011, the House unanimously approved separate proposals joint the three political groups on guidelines territorial model and non-territorial nature respectively to be considered in the revision of PGMO, which served to formalize the consensus between local groups in relation to the territorial model and integrated management of the municipality.
Currently, the team that wrote the PGMO, composed of technical staff of the City, is carrying out necessary modifications and corrections for final approval of the document by which you are working to agree with the regional administration all aspects environmental issues, urban and legal, among others.
In addition, they are holding regular meetings with technical staff and policy makers of the Autonomous Community in order to inform regional bodies progress and solve process prior to public exposure and referral document regional bodies to any problems that may arise during the processing of the application.
The mayor has asked Valcárcel, once the file is sent for final approval, autonomic procedures are performed as quickly, so that, after appropriate administrative procedures, required full or final approval as long as possible .
Health Center-South Totana
Finally, officials from both administrations have dealt with the commissioning of the new South Health Center Totana, built in the Olympic quarter-Pears and which was completed last summer, and it is intended to start in 2014 .
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana. Fotos: Totana.com