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The Southeastern Association of Naturalists (ANSE) has sent a complaint to the City of Cartagena by the dumping of debris and materials from apparently public works in the sewage ponds of El Algar.
Different companies working for local government (Construcciones María García Martínez, Moval SL, SL Conjaypart, Aguas de Cartagena Peter Case, 97 and Vigueras Hervi) are assigned to zones become one of the lagoons, which is being silted up by the discharge of debris. Much of the contaminated sludge resulting from the purification process have been removed for proper treatment, after leaving the treatment plant.
ASEAN members have been doing for years different follow-up of waterfowl present in the purification of the Comarca del Campo de Cartagena, among which is the El Algar.
In this small treatment plant for years propagated species such as stilts, white jar or the snowy plover.
Other birds like the sandpiper sp, sp redshanks, whiskered sp, sp egrets, etc., Is used during cold periods or sporadically.
The plant in El Algar worked through the system of ponds, and although it was designed for the reuse of water for agriculture, other problems prevented the use of them, they were dumped into the ravine.
The plant has been reducing its profit from 2007 until last summer, has not been used fully in both its purification function as temporary storage prior to pumping water into the South Station Mar Menor.
In recent years, several studies have noted the role that wastewater treatment plants are having abandoned or converted for the conservation and recovery of several endangered species of waterfowl.
In our region, for example, the Lagunas de Campotéjar (Molina de Segura) or gaps in Mulberry (Mazarrón), are even subject to different environmental recovery initiatives to promote the breeding of endangered species like the white-headed duck or teal teal among others, recently published the declaration of them as Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance.
ANSE works on both sites for years, in collaboration with various government, for the development of different conservation actions.
From ANSE is considered that the loss of utility for the treatment of this infrastructure in El Algar should not involve the abandonment and destruction of facilities and their rafts, but should be harnessed to its transformation into a naturalized wetland areas associated with Mar Menor and natural environment.
The high cost of construction and preparation of wetlands is also a good cause to demand that the sewage ponds of El Algar of for the recovery of nature rather than as a rubbish dump.
Source: ANSE
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