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Lagoa de Antela

Legislation on the Lagoa de Antela (1868–2002)

Chronology of the rules of the Gaceta de Madrid, BOE and DOG on the draining of Antela: concessions from 1868 to 1907, the 1918 law, the 1956 law, works decrees, the 1972 colonisation plan and the 2002 irrigation study.

First concession recorded
Royal Decree of April 1868
Drainage law
1956 law
Definitive delimitation
Decree 2336/1962
General Colonisation Plan
Decree 2144/1972

The SGHN gathers on its legislation page the list of rules published in the Gaceta de Madrid, the BOE and the DOG that shaped the legal history of Antela [1][2]. This page reproduces the chronology in Galician, with data and bodies as given by the source. The story of each project is in The draining of the Lagoa de Antela and that of the 1956 law in The 1956 Law and the drainage project.

The 19th- and early 20th-century concessions (Gaceta de Madrid)

Date Rule
17-04-1868 Royal Decree declaring of public utility the works to drain the lagoon and channel part of the Limia river and granting the concession to Francisco J. Mugártegui Parga, Toribio Íscar Sáez and Román Mugártegui Parga [1]
23-04-1871 Concessions granted by the Ministry of Development since the law of 3 August 1866 for the drainage, draining and use of land [1]
26-12-1874 Transfer of the concession to John H. Stone and Richard Henry Freeman [1]
28-11-1889 The extension is refused and proceedings begin to declare the concession lapsed [1]
26-06-1890 Royal Decree declaring lapsed the concession granted by the Royal Decree of 15-04-1868 [1]
07-03-1894 and 02-10-1895 Notices of public auction to award the concession again [1]
02-02-1903 Hydroelectric-use concession at Ponteliñares in favour of Carlota Partington [1]
19-12-1907 Transfer of the draining and channelling concession in favour of The Limia Company Limited [1]
24-07-1918 Law on the draining and reclamation of lagoons, marshes and swampy or floodable land over 100 hectares [1]

The Gaceta published on 17 April 1868 the royal decree of the concession, which the 1890 lapse rule dates to 15 April 1868 [1].

The 1956 law and the works of the Instituto Nacional de Colonización (BOE)

Publication date Rule
27-12-1956 Law on drainage and colonisation of the lagoon [1]
02-03-1960 Decree 319/1960 authorising the Minister of Public Works to apply article 23 of the law of 7 July 1911 to the works on the outlet canal and complementary ones, declared urgent [1]
14-06-1960 Decree 1071/1960, of 2 June: "Drainage and reclamation" works, chapter seven, for urgent execution by direct contract [1]
27-02-1961 Decree 266/1961, of 16 February: first itemised budget of the complementary project to the modified one [1]
15-09-1961 Decree 1671/1961, of 6 September: second itemised budget [1]
22-09-1962 Decree 2336/1962, of 20 September: definitive delimitation of the land affected by the plan [1]
09-03-1963 and 17-12-1963 Resolutions of the Instituto Nacional de Colonización on the records prior to occupation of land in Sarreaus, Xinzo, Sandiás and Xunqueira de Ambía (parish of Santiago da Graña) [1]
18-03-1964 Award of the masonry works of the secondary drainage networks [1]
05-08-1964 and 12-01-1965 Resolutions on records prior to occupation of private land in Xunqueira de Ambía [1]
10-08-1972 Decree 2144/1972, of 6 July: General Colonisation Plan of the zone of national interest of the lagoon [1]
12-01-1973 Decree 118/1973: text of the Agrarian Reform and Development Law [1]

Irrigation rules (DOG)

On 6 September 2002 the environmental impact study for converting the A Limia comarca to irrigation, Lagoa de Antela zone, was published in the DOG [1].

Sources

  1. Sociedade Galega de Historia Natural, Sección Antela, «Lexislación». http://www.sghn.org/Seccion_Antela/Galego/Lexislacion.html
  2. Sociedade Galega de Historia Natural, Sección Antela, «Legislación» (versión en castelán). http://www.sghn.org:80/Seccion_Antela/Castelan/Legislacion.html

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