Salobreña's Environmental Department is pending new funding in order to carry out the Provincial Council's programme, Custodia de los Ríos.
Last year the Town Hall was able to carry out a few things along the course of Río Guadalfeo where it passes through the municipality but this year they might get their eager hands on 500,000 euros through the Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia, belonging to the EU fund, Next Generation.
The Custodia los Ríos intends to restore fluvial ecosystems and reduce the risk of flooding in urban areas, and it is the latter where the Town Hall wants to concentrate their efforts, when they get the funding.
According to the Councillor for the Environment, Ángela Rodríguez, they are evaluating the idea of investing funds on building up the river walls. She recognises that such anti-flooding actions would cost a pretty penny (a lot) so they’re looking into receiving other funding, as well because there is no way the famished, municipal coffers provide it up without imploding.
The Custodia de los Ríos, provincial programme, which will continue until 2025, is all about helping out small municipalities in “ecological restoration,” of rivers where they pass through urban areas, such as is the case of Río Genil, Río Cubillas and Río Guadalfeo.
Editorial comment: perhaps it’s a waste of time building up the river walls if flood water comes bubbling up through the vega thanks to a water table that you can reach hammering a 6-inch nail into the ground. That’s the trouble when you build on flood plains and vegas. Amen.
(News: Salobreña, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia – Radiosalobreña)
Fred: Me neither. As long as the dam is up river, there amount of water coming down is not going to require higher river walls and if something were to happen to the dam… invest in wellies. When the vega was just fields of sugar cane, it was well irrigated and drained with a whole network of small channel. When that was abandoned, so was the drainage system. Furthermore, sugar crane was a thirst old crop and helped to keep things in check, too.
Not sure how building up river walls fits in with the programme’ objective of restoring fluvial ecosystems/ecological restoration!!
Patrick when the water table goes down, due to a drought, salt water seeps in. Problem: salt water is heavier than fresh, so it sinks to the bottom and you can’t get rid of it. However, Salobreña is at the mouth of the Guadalfeo and river water is guaranteed all year round, from the dam, so the water table shouldn’t go down and salt water shouldn’t seep it, but what do I know, “Not me, Chief; I’m airframes.”
But is the water salt based or ok for crops or gardens. ??