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The Government Team transfers the demands of the residents of the area, as well as the regular road users, who do not have an alternative to access their homes, farms and workplaces.
The closure of the road has been imposed behind the backs of citizens and without consulting them, something that was not done with the City Council itself.
The Councilor for Works in the City of Lorca, Angel Mecca, has reported that the Government Team, following the demands of the residents of the area and the users of it, will present a motion to the plenary session of the Consistory in which asks the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Segura Hydrographic Confederation (CHS) to back down on its decision to cut the transit of vehicles on the road that connects the hamlet of La Tova with different places through the reservoir of the Pantano de Bridges, allowing its use as has been done to date.
Meca Ruzafa explained that there is widespread discomfort among the residents of the area and the aforementioned users, who have the only communication option to access the indicated road to their farms, homes and workplaces, and do not understand the reason why This drastic decision has been taken without even having informed them in advance.
It is, therefore, a measure decreed at the back of citizens, and also the City Council itself, which has had to learn about this imposition when the work to install the mechanism of closure of the road was almost completed.
We must emphasize that the road that crosses it not only fulfills the function of moving to the same dam, but it is a common road between the residents of the deputation of La Tova, especially residents in the Caserío de las Palas, Los Juanetes or Los Raspajos, who find on this road their natural way of passage, both to communicate with other places and to go to work at the numerous agricultural facilities, farms and crops located in the area.
Councilman Works has stressed that this way also has a strong social character.
There are many residents of Lorca who have the tradition of using this road to access the dam, contemplate its flows, explain to the new generations the different parts of it and the extensions that have been made over the years, etc.
It is therefore an infrastructure with great sentimental value for the residents of Lorca, who come continuously to see it through the aforementioned road.
Since the Confederación Hidrográfica del Segura has taken the decision to close this way, installing a closure system that would prevent the crossing of the dam as had been done traditionally to date.
It is a unilateral decision, made behind the backs of the residents and the City of Lorca, and that would be a serious detriment to both the regular users who use it to travel in an ordinary way for the whole population of Lorca It has a tradition to take advantage of the way to contemplate the Pantano de Puentes and interpret its historical and strategic importance.
In the same way it has been demonstrated that it does not offer any harm to keep it open, since no damages or incidents that justify its closure have been perceived.
The dam of the Pantano de Puentes is intimately linked to the history of the municipality of Lorca, as well as to the local society since its original construction in the seventeenth century.
It is an emblematic hydraulic work that has been the object of study and that by its constant extensions allows to analyze the evolution of engineering for more than three and a half centuries.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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