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This is one advantage that has been introduced in the course of modernization and improvement have been developed in the urban area by the municipality.
The underground network covering the streets of Spain Plaza, Alamo, Lope Gisbert, Puente La Alberca, Santo Domingo and Boilermakers Lane until you reach the riverbed.
Councillors Works and Municipal Services, Angel Mecca, and the Environment, Melchor Morales, reported the new system of collection and disposal of storm water that has been installed in different streets of the town.
The deputies explained that the City has used the work of modernization and improvement of underground networks to proceed with the installation of an underground grid that collects rainwater and channels it to the vicinity of the splitter of the Casa Mata, where they available to the irrigators Lorca for use in agri-food crop irrigation.
This is one of the most notable consequences deriving from the battery of measures developed in the city center.
Ground mesh, designed prior to the commencement of the work in question was born in the Plaza of Spain and down Alamo Street (under construction), by Lope Gisbert continuing to the intersection of the Juan de Toledo and Boilermakers Lane .
In this connection, the network is doubled, so that one leg goes up the street Puente La Alberca and the other is directed by Lane Boilermakers to the bed of the river across the street from Santa Clara to the height of the location where previously local fish markets were located.
We're talking about a journey that has a whole approximate distance of 1,200 meters, allowing the collection of rainwater as the streets that runs underground so the said infrastructure such as roads closer.
The underground structure is installed with an average depth of 1.10 meters, which varies depending on the characteristics of the road under which it is located.
Less puddles in the streets, more water to irrigate crops
The target set by the City with this action is directed in two ways, so that one part is able to reduce water runoff from streets that had very steep (as is the case of Alamo Street) and promotes the disappearance of puddles on the tracks.
On the other hand achieves a full utilization of rain water to put at the disposal of farmers.
The councilors who have participated in the presentation of this network have indicated that ground works were carried out on the surface of the streets has undergone improvements were important, especially if it has been the design of underground networks, which have received planning very ambitious and meticulous to the millimeter.
The stretch mesh rainwater collection installed under Lope Gisbert, Puente La Alberca, Santo Domingo, Tinkers Lane Santa Clara Avenue and consists of cement and PVC pipes especially while under enable leverages Alamo Street Pipeline previous Commonwealth Taibilla Channel, connects to the collector that receives the water coming down from Santa Maria and leads to another junction located at the intersection of Poplar and Lope Gisbert, at the height of the post office.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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