The Xunta de Galicia is carrying out maintenance and conservation tasks river Belelle in the town of Neda, on a section that technicians have classified as having a potential risk of flooding. The tasks are in the hands of Augas de Galicia.
The Department of Environment and Climate Change this week began carrying out conservation and maintenance actions in a section of the area with significant potential flood risk (Arpsi) of the river Belelle, as it passes through the Neda town hall. The director of Augas de Galicia, Roi Fernández, supervised the progress of the work on the ground, which is focused on a stretch of almost 200 meters, at the Camino da Ponte Grande location.
Cleaning the Belelle River
As explained by the head of the hydraulic organization, the tasks consist of removing the sediments accumulated and retained in the existing dam at this point, an action that aims to improve the hydraulic capacity of the Belelle river canal. In addition, other preparatory work will also be undertaken on the retaining walls and the timely removal of trees from the canal will be carried out.
Once this first phase of the intervention is completed, as explained by the director of the hydraulic organization, the technicians will be available to address the demolition of the dam in February already mentioned and with it, minimize the risk of flooding.
In this sense, he also recalled that the regulatory modifications introduced through the Law of fiscal and administrative measures of the budgets of the Xunta for the year 2025 will make it possible to speed up the processing of relative authorizations. the works in river sections whose main purpose is to prevent possible flooding episodes.
The solution proposed in this case is the result of the exhaustive technical analysis carried out by Augas de Galicia in the floodable area of the river. Belelle, within the framework of which different models of action were evaluated. In this sense, Roi Fernández highlighted the collaboration received from the neighborhood group in the area, which facilitated thethe Xunta technicians the information and the necessary contacts to locate interested parties and have access to the main workplaces.
It is necessary to emphasize that Augas de Galicia develops this type of actions within the framework of the maintenance program, conservation and improvement of the public hydraulic domain and of environment of the Galicia-Costa basin and in its access and protection areas.
The final objective is to improve the river beds to favor the natural conditions of the river ecosystem, acting in the areas in which the Xunta has powers, outside the urban river networks of municipal responsibility. This year alone, Augas de Galicia intervened in nearly 500 kilometers of rivers within the framework of this program and by 2025 it has reserved a budget of more than 2.7 million euros to carry out maintenance and conservation tasks in another 550 river kilometers of the Galicia-Costa basin.
The tasks carried out include the removal of sediments retained in the dam, which allows the hydraulic capacity of this stretch to be improved, in addition to other preparations that will allow the dam to be demolished in February, to comply with regulations and give normal fluidity to the current of the Bellele River.