The technicians of the Hydrographic Confederation of Guadaiana and of Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water of the Junta de Andalucía met this Tuesday to address the project of linking La Colada to Sierra Boyera, which was awarded to the Cordoba company Jicar for just over 9 million and which has raised a lot of dust due to of the threat from the president of this basin body on its real usefulness and on the fact that it could not be allowed.
According to sources from the meeting itself, it took place in the right tone despite the declarations of Samuel Moraledathe president of the CHG, who was present at the meeting as well as the general secretary of Water of the Council, Ramiro Angulo.
These same sources explained to ABC that the Andalusian Government has clearly indicated that the connection now granted “does not consist, as has been said, of placing a pipeline next to another already existing”, and it has even been admitted that parts of the emergency solution undertaken in 2023 by Acuaes (a state enterprise linked to CHG) could now fit into this final solution pending since 2009. That year, the PSOE paralyzed a work at 90% while he was on the board of directors. Later in 2018 the PP reactivated it, it was declared a work of regional interest in 2020 and the project was developed and the works were awarded in 2024.
Improvements to the La Colada Project
It is now up to the Confederation to study the authorization proposal as well as the corresponding concession to Borrow (Foral Delegation of Cordoba) to be able to take water from the La Colada reservoir and distribute it through this completed network.
If certain sections of pipe used in the Government’s 2023 solution were incorporated into the Council’s final works – which in turn also used materials from the original 2007 works – the cost would logically be reduced, an aspect which remains to be defined , It is true that a significant part (almost a third) of the budget for the work that Jicar will undertake corresponds to the electrical installation to improve water collection.
The purpose of this complete connection is to create a flow rate of 600 liters per second which will make it possible to better distribute water in the 27 municipalities served by this network. The CHG has so far not challenged the Council’s project at any stage of its processing, an aspect that, together with Moraleda’s statements, has greatly surprised the Council and the Provincial Council.
