Benidorm asks the Provincial Council a subsidy to channel the final section of the El Murtal ravine and avoid damages and floods
The City expects funds from the Provincial Council to draft a project that aims to follow the model of Orts Llorca Avenue
The Local Government Board has approved to request the Provincial Council of Alicante a grant to draft the channeling project for the final section of the ravine El Murtal. Councilor for Works and Water, José Ramón González de Zárate, explained that "it is necessary and urgent to act in this channel, because when it rains with certain intensity there are water floods that cause flooding and also damages the beach." The maximum amount eligible for the drafting of the project, according to the bases drafted by the Diputación, is 100,000 euros.
De Zárate added that the Master Plan of defense against avenues in the Marina Baixa region of the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation (CHJ) qualifies this zone as a "high danger of flooding". Hence, "we consider it a priority to act on this point, which is one of the few conflicts left in Benidorm once we have practically solved the historical flood problems in the avenue of Doctor Orts Llorca", whose works will end soon.
The councilor has detailed that the proposed channel involves acting on a stretch of about 190 meters "from the existing metal pipeline at the height of the Murtal tunnels to the mouth of the Poniente beach." That is, the entire length of Murtal Street, which would also act on surface improving the sidewalks and the urban scene.
The CHJ Master Plan includes several solutions for this channeling, which would allow to capture the waters that go down the ravine before they end up on the beach, thus preventing their exit to the sea and damages in the sand. Zarate said that these solutions "would imply an approximate budget of 1.2 million euros", and has detailed that from the City "technically it is proposed to follow the model of Orts Llorca, with a burial channel of the ravine and with a pumping that Allow water to the sewerage network "preventing it" to go to the beach except in cases of heavy rains. " In addition, and in compliance with a plenary agreement, it is proposed to see the feasibility of building a deposit for the collection of rainwater and its reuse for washing or irrigation of gardens.
"We are going to try that the Provincial Council, that is being sensible with Benidorm especially in subjects of water, grant us the subsidy that allows us to write the channeling project according to the solutions proposed by the CHJ so as to advance as soon as possible in the channeling of the Ravine ", has pointed De Zárate. The councillor has remarked that once the project is ready and by 2018 the City Council can either plan this work with its own funds or opt for subsidies or grants from supramunicipal administrations.
