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Torrential April storms in Cartagena damaged the wastewater pipe beyond repair
The Costas coastal authority has demanded that Cartagena City Council fully replace the outfall at Cala Reona, which carries the treated wastewater from La Manga out to the Mediterranean Sea, rather than simply repairing it again.
Councillor for Infrastructure Diego Ortega insisted on Thursday May 26 that they “will not authorise anything other than the construction of a new outfall” and has completely ruled out further repairs after the system was heavily damaged during the storms in April, with parts of the pipe dragged out to sea. In fact, bits of the outfall are still being washed up onto the shore more than a month later.
The pipe has already been repaired on three separate occasions, according to the deputy spokesperson, works that have “left it so broken” that there is no alternative but to build a new one to avoid more “serious environmental consequences”.
For this reason, according to Cartagena’s mayor, “the City Council has requested the Sanitation and Wastewater Treatment Entity of the Region of Murcia (ESAmur) to draw up the construction project.”
During the same episode of bad weather, the reservoirs of the Cabezo Beaza treatment plant, which store purified water for irrigating agricultural land, burst their banks, and at the time the Council was considering installing a spillway to relieve the pressure during the next period of heavy rain.
On this matter, it has been decided that in the event that the seven million euros needed to complete this project aren’t available, other “less expensive” solutions will be explored “in collaboration with groups of environmentalists, an engineer and an architect.”
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