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The Confederación Hidrográfica del Segura (CHS) has begun work to recover the riparian forest at La Barratera de Cieza.

This project contemplates the elimination of the existing speck in the place with the purpose of establishing suitable environmental conditions that favor the implantation and consolidation of the vegetation of native riverbank and its associated fauna.

In particular, the right bank of the channel is being restored to a more naturalized state than the current one.

Thanks to these tasks, framed within the LIFE + Ripisilvanatura project, the state of the river and its associated ecosystem will be improved.

The execution of the project involves the elimination of about 600 linear meters of mota divided into two stretches of 320 and 280 meters respectively, which will have the added benefit of returning to the neighbors a direct view of the river, by eliminating the wall of aggregates and cane .

In addition, the cane of the slopes is being eradicated and later a plantation will be realized with autochthonous species to favor its stability and to recover the forest of native bank.

In total, some 2,700 cubic meters of aggregates are being removed, and about 500 specimens of native species will be planted in the area recovered.

A part of the planting work, which will be carried out throughout the winter, will be open to the participation of volunteers with the aim of raising awareness about the need to recover the riparian forest.

This intervention will not mean a reduction in flood defenses, but just the opposite.

The speck in the area of ​​Barratera did not obey any justifiable criteria of measures against avenues, since there are no remarkable elements or infrastructures to protect or continuity in the own elevation.

On the contrary, the topography of the lands adjacent to the channel caused small localized floods in the lower points of its right margin in episodes of ordinary rains.

These floods were not due to the overflow of the channel, but to the barrier effect of the existence of the mota and the impossibility of natural drainage to the river from the waters falling in the areas adjacent to the river.

The basin organization, under the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment, is responsible for coordinating the LIFE + Ripisilvanatura project, which is funded by the European Union.

The main objective is the conservation and recovery of riparian vegetation in the high valley of the Segura river in the municipalities of Cieza, Calasparra and Moratalla.

Source: CHS