The pipeline that will provide regenerated water to the Muga River from the Figueres treatment plant to Pont de Molins, and which is planned to improve the flow, will cost 6.5 million euros and will enter service in August, as reported by the vice president of the Government, Laura Vilagrà, who visited the works already started this Monday in the town of Girona.
The vice president stressed during her visit to the works of the aforementioned pipeline that it is an “urgent” work due to the situation in Alt Empordà: “It is where we have the most critical context in the whole of Catalonia, therefore, it is a priority work.” , he admitted, while the mayor of Figueres, Jordi Masquef, has defended that the measure comes in time.
The pipeline will be fully financed by the Catalan Water Agency (ACA) and will have a length of 9.2 kilometers, which will provide the Muga with 7,600 cubic meters per day, which is about 300 cubic meters per hour, with the aim of improve not only the flow rate, but also reinforce the filling of wells and mines.
A measure that comes at a time when the Darnius-Boadella reservoir, which supplies twelve municipalities in the Alt Empordà, is in phase two of emergency due to drought with 11% capacity, one of its historical minimums, with less of 7 cubic hectometers.
In parallel with this action, the works also include diverting the rest of the water leaving the Figueres treatment plant through the current outlet to the stream, and from this to the height of Vilanova de la Muga through another pipeline that will transport it to the Comte Lock. .
In addition to this measure, other measures planned to stop the drought in the region include the construction of new bridges in the area of the Muga aquifer to feed the three supply networks that depend on that body of groundwater.
