The La Carrasca-Ecologistes en Acció environmental group from Alcoy has accessed the report from the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation (CHJ) regarding the Special Plan for the Alcoi Sud Business Park project in the La Canal area. The environmentalists emphasize that the main obstacle identified by the report is that "in more than three-quarters of the space planned by the Chamber of Commerce - as the project's promoter - industrial zones are directly inadmissible, as they are located within the moderate restriction zone of the aquifer protection perimeter currently being processed".

The Alcoy Chamber of Commerce had highlighted from the CHJ report that it "allows progress in its processing, as it establishes conditions to be taken into account in its final definition", pointing out that the document indicates that "the industrial zone, according to the documentation presented, is located outside the high vulnerability zones of the aquifer". The business entity added that the text classifies a part of the project's surface area as having "medium vulnerability" for the aquifer, and another smaller area as "low", considering that "this report is added to the others issued by different bodies that indicate the project's progress, providing technical conditions to be resolved in future steps of its processing".

From La Carrasca, it is insisted that the Confederation's report incorporates the limitations established by the Regulation of the Public Hydraulic Domain. They warn that, in addition to the aforementioned limitation, which environmentalists consider "invalidates the project", the report "highlights that the documentation presented by the Chamber of Commerce is very superficial and clearly insufficient to minimally assess the impact".

They emphasize that "the types of industrial activities intended to be established are not even identified, which prevents characterizing the wastewater that would be generated; the discharge point for treated wastewater is not clarified and, in any case, the discharge would go to the Barranc de l'Ermita (in the municipality of Ibi), affecting groundwater (groundwater body 080-176A Barrancons, currently classified as good). This requires a new hydrogeological study that has not even been foreseen". They recall that all political parties in the Ibi City Council have unanimously expressed their opposition to receiving this discharge.

Likewise, from La Carrasca, they insist that "the Plan intends to transport treated wastewater that cannot be discharged due to its poor quality to the Alcoy treatment plant, a proposal that the Confederation says it does not understand and doubts its technical and operational viability; the karstic nature of the aquifer, a key aspect that conditions its vulnerability to contamination, has not been sufficiently taken into account; it is not established what increase in water demand the action would generate; and there is no information on the treatment of rainwater runoff (nor on the characteristics and capacity of the storm tanks that would need to be built, nor on what proportion of the total runoff water they would have to receive, etc.)".

This new report "also adds a whole series of requirements, the need for new studies, and obstacles that are added to those already raised in previous technical reports (Directorate General of Urban Planning, Landscape and Environmental Assessment of the Generalitat Valenciana, Directorate General of Roads, Municipalities of Ibi and Alcoy). This will further prolong the procedures and increase costs, making a project that is already unviable for environmental and legal reasons unassumable".

The environmental group recalls that the Strategic Initial Document of the Special Plan "intended for the Environmental Assessment process to be carried out in a simplified and urgent manner, rushed, which means reducing participation and guarantees" and they highlight that "this attitude contrasts with public declarations in which they boast about wanting to make people believe they have great environmental concern".

Finally, La Carrasca is surprised by the Chamber of Commerce's positive assessment of the Confederation's report: "it is only understandable if what is really intended is to reclassify the land, even if it is not going to be used for industry, or if it is simply intended to continue creating false expectations regarding a failed project that has been blocking real solutions to the problems of industrial land demand for over 30 years".