The Minister of Public Works and Infrastructures, Francisco Barnabas and the mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo today inaugurated the second participative workshop for designing the strategy Integrated Management of Mar Menor and its environment, within the Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI) , which was held in the City of San Javier, with the participation of 100 experts from social organizations and public administrations.
"We want to be a project of all, and this is the appropriate forum to decide what is to be done" said the counselor who announced that from today an "on line" route that extends participation giving the possibility to all citizens opens to to present its proposals through www.carm.es indicating where they should go towards measures to improve the Mar Menor.
The mayor of San Javier welcomed participants and reiterated the commitment of the City of San Javier with the values ​​of preservation and conservation of the Mar Menor underlying the strategy for the drafting of these second workshops are held whose actions and proposals will add to lessons in the first edition of the same held in February in Cartagena.
The ceremony was also attended by the director general of Transport, Coast and Ports and coordinator of the ITI del Mar Menor, Salvador Garcia-Ayllón, the coordinaddor team editor Strategy Integrated Management of Mar Menor, Juan Manuel Barragán and environmental advisor working group of the ITI del Mar Menor, Ángel Pérez Ruzafa.
In participatory workshops have been held in San Javier have gathered neighborhood associations, universities, research centers, business associations, tourism and leisure, fishing, agricultural cooperatives, farmers' associations and community of irrigators, sports federations, environmental organizations , associations of cultural heritage and the three public administrations.
Once drafted the Strategy document, which is expected before the summer, will start its administrative process to final approval by the Governing Council.
It is then when they opt to European subsidies, for which he will enjoy preference to being one of only three approved ITI areas in Spain, Francisco Bernabe said.
"The ITI is not a magic wand but a process of several years, which provides solutions that can be medium or long term," said the Minister of Public Works and Infrastructures, Francisco Barnabas who recalled that the integrated territorial investment approved for the Mar Menor has of course, first the power to ensure zero discharge with an investment of 39 million for the construction of a large perimeter manifold over the lagoon.
In that total investment of 45 million euros representing the ITI also includes a network of storm tanks, which is running;
The project, already being drafted, a project of access points to boats to avoid free moorings in the Mar Menor, and the drafting of the Integrated Management Strategy for the Mar Menor and its environment, which will come out of the workshops participatory, like today in San Javier, and citizens additions and determine the measures to be taken for the improvement and preservation of the Mar Menor.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier