With an estimated low future provide of water from the Switch, many irrigation communities already see their future threatened. That is actually the case of those who populate the realm round La Pedrera reservoir.
Constructed to manage the flows that arrive to the southeast from the Tagus, its environment present the shortage of water sources from the aqueduct. Now, a 52 million euro funding mission, promoted by the CHS and the Generalitat, plans to cut back this dependence by growing the water that these communities obtain from the Torrevieja and Orihuela Costa remedy crops.
Till now, the regional administration had been racking its brains to discover a method to retain rainwater within the basin that flows into the Torrevieja lagoons. Now dominated out because of the environmental influence it will have on the protected ecosystem (it was deliberate to find a reservoir subsequent to the Laguna Rosa), the answer is to extend the provision of regenerated water, benefiting from current pipelines and laying new ones.
The communities that can profit are: VillamartÃn, Barranco de Hurchillo, Campo de Salinas, La Estafeta, Fuensanta de Jacarilla, Las Cañadas, Las Dehesas, Mengoloma, Pilar de la Horadada, RÃo Nacimiento, San JoaquÃn, San Miguel de Salinas, San Onofre and Torremendo, Santo Domingo and Campoamor.
All of those communities of farmers keep an irrigable floor of 10,949 hectares that extends past Campo de Salinas to Pilar de la Horadada alongside the shoreline and additional north from La Pedrera in the direction of the headland of Hurchillo and the Dehesa de Pinohermoso.
The annual volumes that will likely be channelled are 7.2 cubic hectometres from the Torrevieja remedy plant, 3.1 hectometres from the Orihuela Costa and three hectometres from the Torrevieja desalination plant.
With this funding, the proposal to ​​seize rainwater subsequent to the Torrevieja lagoons is now redundant.
The whole finances of the mission quantities to 51.9 million euros – partly financed with European funds, nonetheless it’s not anticipated to be accomplished earlier than 2026.
The advanced system that can ship these flows consists of fifty pipelines to the completely different diversion ponds for every group valued at 14.9 million and which additionally embrace the Algorfa (La Finca) and VillamartÃn golf programs.
Moreover, it’s deliberate to construct 4 reservoirs with a capability for 963,000 cubic meters of water (10.7 million), in addition to a number of tanks (700,000 euros), six pumping stations (3.5 million) and three floating photovoltaic installations, one among 1,500 peak kilowatts and the opposite two of 1,000 kilowatts, valued at 2.8 million euros.
These works may even complement these already being carried out by the Generalitat on the Orihuela Costa remedy plant to divert a part of its flows to the Torrevieja and Pilar de la Horadada stations. The higher reuse of water for agriculture will assist to mitigate the overflow of untreated water from this facility to the seashores throughout episodes of heavy rains.
