The Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Function has approved to allocate a total of 10,389,346 euros to 23 municipalities in the province to fix infrastructure and municipally owned assets as a result of the DANA in September 2019. The towns, which were the most affected submitted projects to the Government for an amount of 24,006,043 euros, of which the Ministry subsidiaes a maximum of 50 percent, and the rest of the money must be provided by the municipalities.
The bulk of the aid will be used to finance projects to fix damages that the municipalities of Vega Baja which was the region most affected by the cold drop. In fact, 90 percent of the subsidies will go to this region, a total of 9,639,253 euros.
The town that will receive the most money in its municipal coffers is Almoradí, where the overflowing of the Segura river caused a real catastrophe. Its Mayor, María Gómez, was delighted by the resolution and said that half of the grant money, about 3 million, will go to the repair of the municipal sewage system, which collapsed due to the force of the water and numerous sinkholes appeared due to the breakage of the network.
In Orihuela, the City Council will pay a total of 1,242,595 euros in two lines of aid, one of 742,898 euros for paving roads and 499,697 to solve the problems that DANA caused in the Palace del Marqués de Arneva, seat of the City Council.
“The Town Hall received damage to the foundations and roofs and with this money we will fix it, in addition to repairing the roads that were damaged,” explained the Councillor for Emergencies, Víctor Valverde.