The project, spanning the municipal areas of Valderrubio and Pinos Puente, has a total investment of 10.8 million euros. Of this amount, 4.18 million have been granted to the Valderrubio City Council and 6.64 million to the Pinos Puente City Council, funded by state aid to mitigate the effects of recent storms, as per Royal Decree-Law 5/2026 from the Government of Spain.
The project, described as of "enormous technical and administrative complexity," includes a one-kilometer stretch within Valderrubio's municipality and another 1.5 kilometers in Pinos Puente. It is expected to provide a "definitive solution" to a problem that has impacted residents' lives for years.
During the recent storms in February, the Valderrubio City Council already intervened with heavy machinery to divert the water and prevent it from directly flooding the town, thus averting new inundations caused by the overflow of the Barranco Hondo.
The construction work has an execution period of three years, after which Valderrubio will see one of its historical demands for water infrastructure resolved.
The mayor of Valderrubio, Antonio García, expressed his satisfaction with this "achievement," recalling the efforts of previous municipal corporations and the impetus from his current administration to develop a new project from scratch. He thanked the central government, the Provincial Council of Granada, the Guadalquivir Hydrographic Confederation, and the Pinos Puente City Council, as well as the collaboration of technicians and workers.
García noted that floods have been a constant in the municipality's history, causing material damage, economic losses, and devastating harvests, generating "enormous uncertainty" with every threat of heavy rainfall.
