Valencia's City Council has removed protective barriers, shopping trolleys, bed frames, and fishing nets from the water under the train bridge. The intervention aims to prevent obstructions during future rains.
Valencia's City Council has launched an extraordinary cleaning operation in the old bed of the Turia River, under the northern railway bridge, to remove an unusual accumulation of metallic and bulky waste. The operation, managed by the Integral Water Cycle Service and the Sanejament de València contract, focused on the stretch in front of the overflow of the Eivissa pumping station, where municipal services detected floating and submerged objects.
The work, carried out with the truck designated for maintaining the screening grids of the ditches, allowed for the extraction of protective barriers, shopping trolleys, road signage plates, and bed frames, as well as wood, plastics, and fishing nets. The predominant presence of metallic elements necessitated the setup of a specific device to safely remove them and sanitise the environment.
The councillor for the Integral Water Cycle, Carlos Mundina, explained that the action responds to an unusual accumulation of objects in the water and that it recovers the appropriate conditions of this point in the riverbed. “This is an extraordinary action that responds to an unusual accumulation of objects in the water and restores the proper conditions of this point in the old riverbed,” he stated.
Beyond waste removal, the intervention has a preventive objective. Mundina emphasised that the cleaning promotes the proper functioning of the screening infrastructures and helps prevent obstructions during future rain episodes, a key factor in a city like Valencia, which is prone to torrential rains.
Once the work was completed, the recovered materials were transported in municipal trucks to the central facilities of the company responsible for the service. There, staff manually separated and classified them to deposit them in the corresponding containers and ensure their recycling.
The councillor thanked the staff involved in the operation and appealed for citizen collaboration to maintain this space in good condition. “Caring for the old riverbed is a shared responsibility”, he asserted, reminding that leaving objects in the environment harms the ecosystem and can affect hydraulic infrastructures.
The operation has restored the proper flow of water in the screening facilities and reduced the environmental impact of the accumulated waste, according to municipal sources.
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