Tarragona
Barcelona
Tarragona
Barcelona
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The residents of the Masies Catalanes urbanization, spread between l’Albiol and Alcover, fear new floods this autumn due to the drainage of the Las Lomas photovoltaic plant, an almost finished facility that has been built in l’Albiol.
The concern comes after two episodes recorded in September and October 2025, when several streets were flooded, the water exceeded the height of the sidewalks, and residents could not enter or leave by either the C-14 or the Selva del Camp. The paradox is that the plant maintains a valid construction permit despite the Agència Catalana de l’Aigua having issued an unfavorable report on its impact on the natural runoff of the property.
The report from the Agència Catalana de l’Aigua concludes that the measures proposed by the developers are not enough to correct the impact on the natural dynamics of water.
The plant has 11,583 panels and is already almost finished. Residents point to it as the main cause of the floods, although in the same area they also cite the modification of a stream in the nineties and the channeling of rainwater carried out by the Diputació de Tarragona in 2014.
Aurelio Hernández, president of the Masies-Alcover property owners’ association, describes the extent of the two episodes suffered in the urbanization.
“Residents are completely isolated, they can neither enter nor leave. The water reached above the height of the sidewalks and entered some plots” – Aurelio Hernández, president of the Masies-Alcover property owners’ association
In the parliamentary response to a question from En Comú Podem, the Minister of Territory, Housing and Ecological Transition, Sílvia Paneque, confirmed this scenario and transferred to the l’Albiol City Council the responsibility of ensuring compliance with the reports issued during the processing.
Andreu Carrasco, the mayor of l’Albiol, states that he has no knowledge of the ACA’s reports and considers it a “total incongruity” that the municipality is tasked with this supervision.
The mayor maintains that all permits were granted by the Generalitat de Catalunya. He adds that l’Albiol has about 550 inhabitants and lacks sufficient technical capacity to permanently monitor infrastructures of this type.
Beyond the institutional crossing, the neighborhood discontent remains in a development that depends on concrete accesses and that was already blocked on two occasions within a month, between September and October 2025.
Hernández calls on the administrations to report on the status of the procedures and the measures planned for an effective solution, a complaint that links with the damage from overflows when hydraulic works or water management end up affecting properties and accesses.
In September, the neighbors plan to meet with the Catalan Water Agency to address the problem while the developer still has the building permit in force.
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