Overview
- Spain’s Environment Ministry is revising flood hazard maps that would fold damaged parcels along rivers and ravines into the Dominio Público Hidráulico, which places them under state control if unchallenged.
- The public consultation, posted in the official state gazette, runs for three months and would give the new boundaries administrative presumption unless landowners file objections in time.
- More than 300 hectares of cropland were badly hit or swept away in the dana floods, according to the farm group AVA-Asaja.
- AVA-Asaja says earlier meetings brought only a verbal pledge to study compensation, then it learned of the mapping process through a local delegate and a query to the Júcar river authority.
- The group has sent letters to national and regional officials, held briefings for owners, and is weighing court action as Agriculture’s €11,800-per-hectare payout covers lost income from damaged infrastructure but not the land itself.