Line of action:

Urban environments

Status:

En ejecución

Location:

Manzanares El Real, Madrid (Community of Madrid)

Execution date:

2022

Duration:

16/09/2022 - 16/12/2025

Total budget:

€1,443,300.01

Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:

€1,371,135.00

Coordinating entity:

Manzanares El Real City Council

The project focuses on the restoration of the natural bed of the section of the Cortecero stream -definitively urbanized in the last decades of the twentieth century, after the flood of 1989-; the recovery of associated biodiversity and ecosystems; the creation of new green areas for stays and flooding next to the banks that serve both for a better integration of the stream in public use and perception, as well as for greater response capacity in times of floods and the elimination and adaptation of transversal barriers and hydraulic bottlenecks. In this way, the aim is to achieve the adaptation of the city to extreme phenomena in a context of climate emergency.

Some of the actions included in this project are:

• Hydrological Plan for Manzanares El Real and Flood Management in the Cortecero stream basin.
• Green and Blue Infrastructure and Biodiversity Plan for Manzanares El Real.
• Geomorphological recovery and permeabilization of the riverbed
• Reconfiguration of the section, expansion of the river space and introduction of sustainable drainage systems.
• Plantations and treatments to recover the native vegetation of the riverbank.
• Elimination or adaptation of transverse barriers and hydraulic bottlenecks.