Hundreds of dead fish found in a reservoir in Castilblanco, Spain

Neighbors alerted the appearance of hundreds dead in the reservoir of La Marciega in Castilblanco de los Arroyos, who promptly supplies the municipality fish.

A sheet of dead fish covers the waters of the reservoir of La Marciega of Castilblanco. The alert the neighbors have given themselves when the weekend came to the farm where this reservoir of limited capacity with which promptly has been supplied to households in the municipality. In networks, the photographs showing dead fish, published in the Collective page Viar, are the subject of debate among neighbors, who demand an explanation of what is happening in these municipal facilities.

In November 2009 the shortage of water resources Reservoir Los Molinos left a stamp that explained the smell and taste of the liquid coming out of their taps, and made ​​an impression on the imagination of the neighbors: a cow decomposed with ponds where accumulated between silt and fish remains, low liquid element of place that should supply the population. Forced by circumstances, from the city of Castilblanco purification systems Reservoir The Marciega were activated that until 23 years had been supplying the population, in order to guarantee the service until the arrival of the rains.

The water supply problems are cyclical in this county where 80% of the population does not consume water from the tap, as recognized from the government team in February 2011, when the last crisis occurred. The City Council decreed “the prohibition of drinking and using water from the mains supply for meals” because of the “high aluminum concentration” which focused on water from the reservoir of Los Molinos. What happened in 2011 what unknown neighbors, because the local government did not make public the reports Emasesa technical staff and the Provincial Delegation of Environment did the water, and therefore the grounds of that water pollution from local supply network three years are unknown.

The Marciega is a dam built in 1972 that failed to solve the water problems Castilblanco. In recent years, it has hosted the Club de Pesca, thanks to an agreement with the City. After the drought in 1983, the efforts to build a new dam began, Los Molinos, in the Ribera de Cala, to meet the needs of the growing population of the municipality. The water from the new dam with a capacity of 0.8 cubic are, finally arrived in 1986. This took place c on an impromptu water fight in the Yellow Square: thus arose the first Water Festival which opens each year the summer festivities in this town in the Sierra Norte de Sevilla.

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