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The Ministry of Water, Agriculture and Environment begins to develop works to improve and modernize the irrigation network of the irrigation community of Miraflores, in the municipality of Jumilla.

The total investment is 1,240,284 euros and the execution period is four months.

The project of technological improvement, as well as the creation of a station of renewable energies for the network of irrigation of the community of irrigators of Miraflores "is framed in the series of actions of the regional Government with the aim of bringing the last technologies to the communities Of irrigators to optimize water management, "said the Minister of Water, Agriculture and Environment, Adela Martínez-Cachá, who laid the foundation stone of the new facilities.

The works consist of building a photovoltaic plant to power a new pump with a nominal power of 178 Kw, which will drive a maximum flow of 360 cubic meters of water per hour, from the Jumilla WWTP dam, at a height of 150 meters .

This will allow to pump more than 1.3 cubic hectometres of water per year to the irrigation dams existing during the hours of use of the photovoltaic system.

Likewise, the Ministry will modernize the system of self-control of the current equipment and software for the control of all the facilities, in order to optimize the exploitation and use of resources.

Finally, improvements will be made to the hydraulic installations, with floating take-off, automatic filling and protection elements in reservoirs, placement of electromagnetic flowmeters and different extensions, junctions and valves in the existing irrigation network.

Community of Irrigators of Miraflores

The irrigation community of Miraflores de Jumilla has a total of 972 community members who use water from wells (3,851,288 m3) and the wastewater treatment plant in the municipality of Jumilla (1,500,000 m3).

The comuneros of Miraflores have a cultivable area of ​​1,329 hectares, in which they plant fruit trees, vine, olive and almond trees.

In terms of reuse, the minister stressed that "the volume treated in the purification stations of the Region is 105 hm3 per year, which are allocated in full to reuse for agricultural use."

Source: CARM