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The Minister of Agriculture and Water Regional Government, Antonio Cerdá, and the mayor of Las Torres de Cotillas, opened on Monday morning July 12 the whole system of storm drains in the municipality Torreño.

This infrastructure, a water drainage system to prevent flooding like that have taken place in the streets of the town the day it rains with special intensity, has had a total cost of nine million euros that have been funded in full by the Ministry of Agriculture and Water.

The comprehensive system of storm drains is composed of a vast network of 7.6 kilometers of large diameter pipes intended and designed to drain, mainly rain water and prevent flooding.

This system has the collector street and avenues Mula Juan Carlos I and Ferdinand and Isabella, which empty into the sewer storm the town, whose route begins at the end of the lane local Las Palmeras, by the way the railway, and ends at the river Segura to the height of the Sewage Treatment Station (STP) in the municipality.

This system will recover rainwater from the streets up to four year hectometres that can be reused and which exceeds the required clearance by the European Union

Regional Collaboration

The Minister of Agriculture and Water has sought to highlight "the great effort by the municipal corporation Cotillas Towers to bring forward a project as complex and expensive as this, which began eight years ago with a great purifier and which culminates with the opening of the collector system. "

For his part, Mayor Torreño recalled that his administration is aware "that they are an infrastructure that the city does not see because they are underground, so do not be an obstacle to gauge their importance in the quality of life all Torreño and Torrena and the great efforts made to implement it. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas