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The Minister of Agriculture and Water, Antonio Cerdá, and the Mayor of Cieza, Antonio Tamayo, today unveiled the refurbishment of the canal of the pools in the stretch between the Iron Bridge and Trail Morcillo, within ciezano municipal, which involves an investment of 2.5 billion euros.

The owner of Agriculture and Water said the stretch of the canal has been covered, which defines the urban area of ​​orchard farm, "was in very deficient, he posed a danger of falling and sometimes annoying produced odors to neighbors. "

Cerdá airmen with the diversion of the ditch to cropland, solving a historical problem in the town of Cieza, "alleviating the situation of the farmers, improving distribution and water quality and avoiding losses affecting both irrigators as vehicular traffic. "

In this regard, the Minister said that as a result of this action the amount of water will increase by 50 percent.

The works include a network of main pipelines of 2,800 meters, with their drains with a length of 800 meters, that will divert water from the ditch to the plots by installing irrigation of 58 shots.

Cerda said that "these works will mainly benefit the Community of Irrigators of the Acequia in the pools," which has 956 members and an irrigable area of ​​266 hectares, of which 25 percent will benefit from the pipeline network includes the project for upgrading the water infrastructure.

The works also encourage irrigators Community Serrana-Albares that "feed on the canal from puddles where the water reached them in low quality," said the counselor.

Source: CARM