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The huerta as a sponge: what Gandia’s flood park teaches us
After the Adam storm, Gandia's flood park soaked up around 36,000 m³ of water. A lesson close to home for l'Horta: the huerta protects us too.
After the Adam storm (dana), Gandia’s flood park soaked up around 36,000 m³ of water and slowed the flash flood. Diari La Veu reports on it, and the piece leaves an idea that hits close to home: the huerta is flood infrastructure too.
What happened in Gandia
The park is a renaturalised stretch of the Beniopa ravine: riverside vegetation and a detention basin of up to 45,000 m³ that works as a public park the rest of the time. It was finished in May, cost €2.5 million, mostly EU funds, and gave emergency services time to warn residents.
Why it matters in l’Horta
The article quotes the group Per l’Horta: the network of irrigation channels and fields slows and absorbs water like a huge sponge, while every surface sealed with concrete speeds it up. The local emergency and reconstruction committees also warn that l’Horta Sud has more than twenty projects adding up to over five million square metres of new built land.
What we think at Terra Madura
A living huerta, with people who make a living from it, protects all of us, even those who have never set foot in a field. Making farming worth it again is also a way of caring for the land.
Source: Diari La Veu del País Valencià · “L’alternativa Gandia”, Joan Canela (21 October 2026, in Valencian).
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