Totana City Council and the Community of Irrigators last night held an informational meeting in the auditorium of the commoner entity in order to account for the efforts to solve the so-called consolidated irrigation Totana, which lie in the northern and south of the town, specifically in The Raiguero, The Paretón, La Huerta and La Sierra.
In the same were the mayor, Isabel Maria Sanchez, Councilman Agriculture, Diego Muñoz, and President of the Community of Irrigators, Juan Pagan, and dozens of affected by this situation.
The heads of both institutions informed the attendees of the steps taken in recent months with the Segura basin and even the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, and more specifically, after the meetings held this summer both in the center sociocultural "Jail" as in the hamlet of El Raiguero.
Among the resolutions adopted last summer, in which he highlighted the reopening of a new record to regularize land-application made to the Community Irrigation-August 14, also requested a transitional regime to continue growing in this land.
Stakeholders were informed that the CHS has reported the opening of the requested records, past dated September 6, and administrative procedures and documentation necessary to carry out the actions as to comply with the regularization of the field of Totana.
In this regard, the mayor advocates continue claiming-as it has done today-Water Commissioner to enable a legal tool that provides cover and ensure the development of crops during the processing of the file without any penalties.
Sanchez has also pledged to continue working to get a permit transitional arrangement enabling crops to continue to work in these areas as well as in the regulation of minimum irrigation flow.
The town of Totana irrigation water supplies in the area of ​​transfer from corresponding Guadalentin riverbed north of the municipality towards the town and the Sierra de Espuna-and one from the river to the lower districts The Paretón and The Raiguero.
It is this latter area is not supplied or you can water the transfer because it is outside the irrigation perimeter which are receiving sanctions Segura basin by extracting more water from wells that are authorized for the maintenance of their crops.
The mayor already put, after the summer, this matter before the President of CHS, Michelangelo Ródenas, and the Water Board of the agency problems that are having these irrigators Guadalentin right river passing through Totana, and to support the SAT's that are outside the perimeter also in the highlands of the municipality.
The irrigators are receiving in recent months sanctions for making a private use of irrigation water for their respective public water damage.
With the expansion of this field of irrigation, it will try to solve a historical problem in the municipality with which to better serve farmers supply of these agricultural areas Totana.
