water flooding the access to my house

i have water constantily flooding the access outside my house,i slipped on the other day and cant go out without wellies on.it seems to be my nieghbour flooding his land with water everyday,i have asked him if he knows where its coming from and just shrugs his shoulders and says he comes off the mountain,in august I dont think so.hes a really nice man and dont want to fall out with him,he is helpful in every other way,but i would like to resolve it.who do i contact to determine where the water is coming from

would the junta be a port of call

many thanks to anyone who could advise me

karen

If he is that nice perhaps you should enlist his help directly to deal with it?

Regards

Norman

It sounds obvious Karen, but can't you find out from other neighbours?  I'd ask around generally to find out what's going on.  In our village everybody knows everything about this sort of issue and they can usually come up with ideas.  All the best.

here in lies the problem,my nieghbour is good in lots of ways until it comes to water issues,as i said i cant enlist him because he wont discuss it with me,i dont live in a village i live in the middle of no where in the camp with no other nieghboursi just wondered if anyone knew what department in spain deals with water issues ,so i can source the problem ,if i can find out where its coming from i can try again the friendly approach

many thanks for your responses

Do you pay water bills to a Comunidad de Regantes?  That's what we do and I think you'd go to the President/administrator of this.

hi eggcup

we dont pay water bills ,all our water comes from wells,but there is a supply of irrigation wate ii think its an irrigation issue but not sure what department deals with irrigation water,just wondered was it the junta

Well, with us it's much lower down; it's lower down than the Ayuntamiento.  Apart from the Comunidad de Regantes, which is a local organisation which sorts out all irrigation issues, repairs the acequias etc., the hierarchy goes: Ayuntamiento - Diptuacion (in our case la Diputacion de Granada), which has responsibilities on certain issues like roads for the whole Provinica - Junta.  We've honestly never had to go up as high as that for anything.  Apologies if you already knew all this.  I'll have a think and ask the old man.

thank yo so much,this is the infoi have been looking for,no i didnt know about it,if u can find out anymore ,i would be very grateful,but suberb start

No sweat.  I expect someone else will be able to help out more when they pick up on this thread.  In the meantime will ask himself tomorrow as not in.  All the best.

There is a lot of emphasis these days being given to resources including water.

The pundits even tell us that there will soon be wars over it.

If you are dependent on well water can you not channel and direct it into your well?

New houses here are being encouraged to harvest it for use.

Hope you sort something and you can treasure it rather than having a nuisance.

Regards

Norman

Hi Karen

I'm surprised more people haven't picked up on this; water is a critcal issue in Spain.  Norman makes an excellent point about not wasting this precious resource (as your neighbour is doing) and Norman is thinking laterally which is always interesting.  It is worth thinking about whether there is any way of diverting this water in a useful way by digging a channel or two across your land in a way that will grab this liquid gold and take it to a tree or bush that likes a lot of water.  If this isn't possible because of the lay of the land, then I would try and find out if there is a Comunidad de Regantes (I don't know if they're everywhere); you should be able to get the information from whichever Ayuntamiento covers your property.  I asked my husband and he just agreed with this course of action.  All the best.

hi guys

thank you for your replies,we have channelled some of the water,but the area its ruuning on is just too vast and is also running under some foundations on our property,after some more investigation it would appear that some how our nieghbour is getting this irrgation water to run constantly on his land,he may have wedged open the water access inlet ,so its permant but cant prove this a s yet as we can fiind out where,i think we are going to have to go to town hall

regards karen