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The President of the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura (CHS), Miguel Ángel Ródenas, yesterday visited Mazarrón to study possible hydrological correction works that can be performed in the municipality in order to offset the impact of possible floods and flash floods, as occurred last September.

During the visit, Ródenas was accompanied by the Mayor of Mazarrón, Ginés Campillo, and the president of the Community Irrigation Mazarrón "Virgen del Milagro", José Hernández, besides the aforementioned technical agency under the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment.

Two of the most important works that are being considered would build the two dams to be located in the wadis of mulberry trees and the Reventón.

While projects are now only a phase of study, have indicated from the CHS.

Mazarrón irrigators would benefit from the construction of reservoirs, since the water collected after the avenues could be used to irrigate their fields, relieving the shortage of water resources in the area.

For now, however, the priority for CHS is to assess how they can cope with storms such as those that plagued last September Segura Basin, implying not only aerial surveys or reports river guards and other technicians, which has already made the Confederacy, but also field visits to discuss with the affected what action to take, have indicated through a statement.

Ginés Campillo has qualified Ródenas visit as "very positive for Mazarrón".

The mayor had visited several times the basin organization of the need to study the safety of the wadis of the municipality "is, as was demonstrated last September, a strong spillway avenues of rain in the region."

The mayor has welcomed that have begun to study some proposals, "more so when some of them are aimed at the achievement of possible flows for irrigation in the area."

Ginés Campillo also recalled, in this regard, that "in the last visit we urge the Mazarrón CHS to be included in a plan that enables the advent of hydraulic flow to the municipality by the need for irrigation water are supplied growing, so we believe that these proposals made since Confederation van on track, "he noted.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón