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Water director Andrés Martínez visited the works to improve and modernize the irrigation network of the irrigators community of Miraflores, Jumilla, where he said that "they will contribute to energy efficiency and greater competitiveness of farmers" .
The works, carried out by the Ministry of Water, Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, have a total investment of 1,240,000 euros, and consist of the construction of a photovoltaic plant to feed a new pump with a nominal power of 178 Kw , Which will boost a maximum flow of 360 cubic meters of water per hour from the Jumilla wastewater treatment plant 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 counts on a total of 972 comuneros that make use of water from wells (3,851,288 m3) and of the purification station of the municipal term of Jumilla (1,500,000 m3).
The comuneros have a cultivable area of ​​1,329 hectares, in which they plant fruit, vine, olive and almond trees.
Source: CARM
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