September 2024,

In the BOE of September 17, 2024, the opening of an additional period of hearing and public information of the Proposed project for review of the Special Drought Plan, along with its corresponding Strategic Environmental Study related to, among others, this Segura Hydrographic Demarcation.

This new additional period is due to the fact that, during the processing of the project to review the Special Drought Plan, the General Directorate of Quality and Environmental Assessment, by Resolution of December 14, 2023, issued a joint strategic environmental report on the review of these plans, resolving that they should be subject to an ordinary and non-simplified strategic environmental assessment procedure, as they had initially been processed.

To this end, the Segura Hydrographic Confederation, O.A. has prepared the corresponding Strategic Environmental Study and has carried out the necessary modifications in the Project Proposal to review the Special Drought Plan for this district.

In accordance with article 7.2 of Law 27/2006, of July 18, regulating the rights of access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters, and article 21 of Law 21/2013, of December 9, on environmental assessment, the General Directorate of Water of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge has announced in the BOE the opening of an additional period of public hearing and information of the documents of the referred plan andits corresponding Strategic Environmental Study. This additional period will last forty-five (45) business days, starting from the day following the publication of the announcement in the BOE.

Within this period, contributions may be made and as many observations and suggestions as deemed appropriate may be formulated, addressed to the river basin authority, whose electronic and postal addresses are indicated below:

• Segura Hydrographic Confederation, O.A. (www.chsegura.es). Plaza de Fontes, 1; 30001 Murcia.

Likewise, the email address oficina.planificacion@chsegura.es has been made available to interested parties for the formulation of queries and comments on said consultation and public participation process.

Documents provided for this purpose:

• 1.- Proposal for a project to review the Special Drought Plan of the Segura Hydrographic Demarcation:
  •   PES Memory (12,7 MB)
  •   Annex I. Minimum flow regime in normal conditions and in prolonged droughts (181 KB)
  •   Annex II. List of resources and claims in the Segura Demarcation(463 KB)
  •   Annex III. Description of the main episodes of historical drought (430 KB)
  •   Annex IV. Post-drought reports (1.2 MB)
  •   Annex V. Supply system sheets (3.12 MB)

• 2.- Strategic Environmental Study:
  •  EsAE Memory (5.23 MB)
  •  Annex I. Non-technical summary for the environmental assessment procedure (1.1 MB)
  •  Annex II. Natura 2000 Network spaces, habitats and species of community interest (5.13 MB)
  •  Annex III. List of Water Bodies linked to RN2000 zones or wetlands of the Ramsar Convention (464 KB)
  •  Annex IV. Distribution maps of aquatic species and habitats of interest (32.7 MB)
  •  Annex V. Management guidelines for water-related flora species (3.42 MB)
  •  Complementary digital documentation (285 KB)
    •  XLSX files(290 KB)
    •  SHP files (13,56 MB)

• 3.- BOE announcement
  •   Link to BOE

• 4.- Scope Document of the Environmental Body
  •   Scope Document (324 KB)

• 5.- List of main changes between the PES submitted to public information in March 2023 and September 2024
  •   List of main changes (227 KB)

• 6.- PES preparation process carried out to date
  •   PES preparation process

On October 16, 2024, a day of participation and dissemination of the new review of the Special Drought Plan was held in the CAJAMAR Assembly Hall, located in Plaza Julián Romea, No. 4 with the aim of disseminating the basic aspects and main changes of the new proposal to revise the plan and encourage the participation of the general public during the public information period.

This day has also been broadcast electronically through the Microsoft Teams application to facilitate monitoring.

A total of 96 people attended the event, 52 in person and 44 electronically, who were able to participate both in the same session, those who attended in person, as well as through chat or email, those who have followed her electronically.

Below, you can download the recording of the day, as well as the presentations used in it: