The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project maintains its commitment to the participation of the riparian population in flood risk management. On March 6, the public forum “Future uses of land in the meander of El Señorío, in Castejón, Navarra” will be held.
The objective is that individuals can submit their proposals for the future use of this meander that, thanks to the flood risk adaptation project, will recover its function as a natural space.
The appointment is on Wednesday, March 6, at 6:00 p.m. at the Casa de Cultura de Castejón, in Navarra (C/ Julián Gayarre, nº 4) and the registration is open to all interested parties, and can be made through
THIS LINK.
LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 maintains its commitment to new ways of social participation and involvement of the riparian population in the resilience of the middle stretch of the Ebro. The ideas provided must comply with the applicable regulations in the area and the spatial planning.
This action joins the public day and the visit of the technical and participation teams of LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 at the end of 2023. to inform the population of the area and all those interested about the morphological adaptation of the meander of El Señorío, activities that were very well received.
In addition, the forum follows the same line as the one carried out to define land uses in another upstream meander, that of La Roza, in Alfaro, La Rioja, included in the same intervention section as El Señorío. In this case, the morphological adaptation works have already been completed, which have involved the recovery of 22 hectares of river space, and the environmental restoration is well advanced.
El Señorío Project
The objectives del proyecto son reduce the risk of flooding throughout the entire stretch; return the meander to its natural functions in terms of the recovery of river dynamics and the evacuation of flows in flood situations, and to prevent deterioration, protect and improving the state of ecosystems aquatic, terrestrial and wetlands.
To this end:
- The existing perimeter dike in the meander will be removed, with a length of 1.3 km.
- A relief channel will be created, an arm of the river that will improve the river’s capacity to evacuate flows in the section of the project.
- The environmental restoration of the meander will be carried out with plantations that promote and accelerate its natural revegetation; exotic plant species will be eliminated; the recovery of habitats for fauna species of interest and the inclusion of elements to bring the population closer to the river will be promoted.
- The natural enclaves preserved on the left bank will be connected, forming three ecological corridors that connect them with each other and with the Sotos de Alfaro Nature Reserve, located upstream, and the Ebro River ZEC, located downstream.
The El Señorío project is part of the first section of intervention of the LIFE Project, Zone 1, called “Combined Section of Actions” between Alfaro, in La Rioja and Castejón, in Navarra, which consists of the implementation of a succession of natural water retention measures. These measures include: reconnection of meanders, relief channels, rehabilitation of lost river branches and recovery of river space such as flood plains.
The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project (LIFE20 ENV/ES/00327), approved by the European Commission in the LIFE 2020 call, covers three autonomous communities (La Rioja, Navarra and Aragón), has a duration of 6 years and a total budget of 13,310,350 €, with 55% European funding.
This Project is also an example of institutional coordination and cooperation in the intervention section, being its partners the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO), through its companies TRAGSA and TRAGSATEC; Ebro Hydrographic Confederation; Government of La Rioja; Government of Navarra, through Gestión Ambiental de Navarra, S.A. (GAN-NIK); Government of Aragón and the Aragonese Water Institute.