1.3 Million Euro investment to install a valley irrigation network for Guisguey

It will be a 26 hectare irrigation scheme, with a water supply of about 1,000m3 per day.

The Cabildo Fuerteventura, through the Ministry of Environment,
Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, who Natalia Evora heads, will invest
1,397,819 euros in the works of installing a water network
irrigation between Barranco de La Herradura and Guisguey, in the end
town of Puerto del Rosario. The advertisement for recruitment of
book was published in the Official Gazette of the Province of the last 23
October, with a term of a contract of six months,
after the date of signing the minutes of evidence of rethinking.

"This is the first phase of a larger project and where
We have a strong desire for a group of farmers and
owners interested in setting large areas of valley culture
of Guisguey. To do this we face the possibility of exploiting the
Treated water from Puerto del Rosario, where crops are
compatible, but that they required the irrigation network. It is a
we want to empower interesting possibility to observe their
evolution and why we opted for this investment. If
finally achieve the goals set in culture these
land and more demand will raise further extend the network of
irrigation, "said Natalia Evora.

"The council has previously been working in the recovery of
land, fixing walls, plowing topsails, slowing erosion,
etc. Now is the time to go a step further and capitalize on the water
purified for agricultural use, drawing also on the availability of
very close to the same treatment plant in Puerto del Rosario. If the
result is positive and there is enough demand from the
farmers continue installing more networks, "said the counselor

The driving impulse that comes from the station plans
purification of Puerto del Rosario to Guisgey, where there is also
plans to construct at a second stage a raft in Morro Meadowlark
the elevation 220 meters. In summary, the infrastructure
projects have the following elements or components:

- Equipment drive and drive driving from the station
purification of Puerto del Rosario to connect to the network
Drive DN-250 ductile iron exists today.
- Regulatory Balsa header.
- Irrigation network or distribution network (Guisgey).

To minimize the visual impact, both the pipe
drive as the intake pipe covered by this project,
buried in trench will be placed following the traces of roads and
existing tracks.

To adjust the maximum possible investment to make with the
potential demand and / or currently existing network is designed
irrigation to cover the surface of agricultural land
potentially arable land, about 26 hectares, which can use
about 1,000 m3 of treated water per day.

In the future, if the conditions for the production of desalinated water
permit and demand increases, the network can provide coverage
increased area of cultivation increased only with time
drive and the daily watering time.

Puerto del Rosario, 26 October 2009.

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