The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 project will launch a new tool for social participation and citizen science. This is a virtual platform for monitoring the actions carried out in the river, to which it will be possible to upload images from defined points and have a reference of the behavior of the Project’s interventions. In addition to increasing the general knowledge of the river and LIFE actions, it promotes the involvement of stakeholders.
This proposal, included in the project’s Participation Plan, is linked to the installation of a network of poles at selected points in the intervention areas. The poles include a cell phone holder, in order to always take pictures in the same place and with the same framing.
In order to define the observation points and identify the different functionalities of the platform, the project held an online meeting on June 7 with the Project’s co-creation groups, formed by technical staff and stakeholders from the two intervention sections Alfaro (La Rioja) – Castejón (Navarra) and Osera de Ebro – Fuentes de Ebro (Zaragoza).
Together, technicians representing the partners and the population made a proposal for the location of the monitoring poles, which will be implemented in the coming months.
More participation
The activity of the participation groups does not cease and other meetings have also been held in recent weeks.
Last week, on Thursday, June 1, the co-creation group dedicated to the adaptation and mitigation of Osera de Ebro – Fuentes de Ebro, formed by members and irrigators of the Irrigation Community of the Huerta del Ebro in Fuentes de Ebro, met to make progress on the availability of the land on which part of the works will be carried out. zone 2 actions.
This group, which meets periodically, addresses the key issues in flood risk management in the middle stretch of the Ebro identified by its members: dredging, river restoration and its relationship with socio-economic development or depopulation, review of urban plans or ecosystem services of floods, among others.
