Gestión Ambiental de Navarra, through the technical management of the Government of Navarra, is working on the creation of wooded areas to recover a degraded space in front of the meander that will be recovered as a fluvial space.
The balance of this project to reduce the effects of flooding in the middle stretch of the Ebro, brings together representatives of the institutions and sectors interested in the riverbank that have been actively participating since its inception.
Phase 1 of the renaturation of this area, integrated in the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project, has started and is focused, for the moment, on the left bank of the river with the objective of recovering the connection between the riparian forests and the riverside.
The Government of Navarra, together with GAN-NIK and the CHE, partners of the LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 project, have organized two workshops, one already held with municipal representatives and another to be held in the future with farmers, to learn about the functioning of flood areas in agricultural areas and to assess their replication.
The Project organizes an open forum on future uses in this meander that will recover its function as a natural space, a public activity that was also carried out to gather proposals in the meander of La Roza, in Alfaro.
The works have had a budget of 1,432,467 € and 6.4 hectares of river space have been recovered with plantations of native riverside species, reaching 12,000 specimens.
The Government of Navarra, within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), has called for grants for actions to adapt to the risk of flooding of buildings, equipment and facilities or existing farms in the Ebro Basin.