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Tuesday have appeared at a press conference the secretary of organization of IU-Greens Cieza, José María Rodríguez, and spokesman for environmental affairs, Maria Cano, to explain the details of the proposed Riverside Drive, whose agreement was signed with Acuamed four days before the election by the previous mayor, Antonio Tamayo.

Rodriguez, has begun recalling the history of this project, the agreement has not hesitated to describe as "a real hot potato that the previous team would leave for the incoming corporation."

In this sense, it has revealed that set as the deadline to complete the work on December 31, 2015, so that "there would be material to finish the work by that time time, and certifications of work remain to end they could not be financed by European funds ", clarifying that" at this stage and has been given the approval of the project by the City Council because it has not been entered yet in the same, nor are resolved its claims the neighbors and shared the same nor the expropriation of 10,000 m2 of adjoining land necessary for the execution of the work. "

As for the economic conditions, the leader of IU-Greens Cieza stressed that the council is committed to pay 20% of the work, 825,000 euros, of which they are consigned 300,000 for the remaining 525,000 would have to borrow including interest.

To these costs, we must add the 21% VAT, 13% of general expenses, 6% of industrial profit and cultural 1% so the amount goes from 3.3 million to just over 4, 4 million, so that the City of Cieza would have to put about 1.7 million euros.

It has also stressed that the City agrees to pay the actual costs of projects, studies and administration costs to present the company, which at the moment are unknown.

"The costs of maintenance of the works and actions that are undertaken: cleaning, clearing rods, replacement of trees, wood treatment gateways, etc., are not calculated but are paid by the City Council and. by current budgetary stability law to do an assessment by a technical and enter it in the budget, "he said.

Finally, he referred to the additional costs, an issue that he described as "very thorny", which is not calculated, but according to the agreement "all additional costs that resulted from modifications, price reviews, complementary works, etc. are by the City of Cieza "and" in case they posed more than 10% of you rate a Monitoring Committee, in which the City of Cieza gets hurt and that comprise two representatives of each of the signatory parties, but ACUAMED the presidency is held, and in case of tie vote would decide the president, which is another disadvantage for the council. "

Maria Cano: "This project does not connects with the kind of environmental policies since our formation we have been demanding"

Meanwhile, Maria Cano, spokesman for environmental affairs Cieza IU-Green has been commissioned to go into the details of the project stating at the outset that "This project fits in with the kind of environmental policies since our formation we have been demanding "and that" there are urban construction elements, which are not suitable for a river, because artificializan, expensive project and maintenance, and are not justified from the point of view of an environmental recovery project. "

In addition, he said that "no one river recovery, this is something else, is a civil engineering project. It is not a reference project in Spain or anywhere in environmental recovery."

Cano has called the work of "ill-conceived project, misconceived and was written under the banner of the recovery of the river", said "there is no time to produce the plant, said that today, as nurseries of forest plants, "there is no native plants available in the market to supply this intervention (10,000 plants and 4,000 trees) in the times marked by agreement", stating that "the plant can only be provided by licensed nurseries Basin Segura and not fall into past traps as it was in the restoration that took place in the section from the Arenal to the dam, where thousands of euros were spent on poplars of the Ebro Basin, the certificate is not filed exotic species that was produced by a Catalan company that does not belong to this group of authorized nurseries.

With regard to maintenance, the spokesman argued that this is one of the main problems identified in interventions to date, stressing that "when working with plants, maintenance is an essential determinant. To achieve some degree of self-reliance we must understand that in most cases the initial maintenance should be permanent and very expensive so this is bound to be another project in which the rod at the end again eaten all the space has been recovered. "

Finally, Cano has held that "the PP, with this project, has blown that much work it took out the Local Agenda XXI, which brings together a lot of cultural, environmental, sports, social ciezanos groups, as it has not been participation, there have been consultations and were not taken into account the organizations currently working in river restoration projects in the region. "

For all these aspects, and with IU-Greens agree that the river must act, have advocated the launch of an information campaign to the public, with public presentation of the project and the agreement, with debates that confront the positions on it and that citizens decide what is best.

Source: IU-verdes Cieza