Land surveyor in Alzira

The Xúquer and the flood risk

The river has always shaped Alzira. Floods are part of its history and much of the plain lies within the hazard zones of PATRICOVA, the Valencia region's flood risk plan. To build, to extend or even to sell, more and more people want to know where their plot falls in relation to those zones and at what height it sits.

A survey with absolute levels answers with data, and the architect can use it to set the ground floor above the level the regulations require.

Plot surveys in Alzira, hanegada by hanegada

In the Ribera the land has been divided so many times that there are orange groves of two or three hanegadas (the old local land measure). When they are merged into a holding with modern irrigation, or subdivided in an inheritance, they have to be measured again and a GML file prepared for each resulting plot, the georeferenced format that the Cadastre (Catastro, Spain's land and property register for tax purposes) and the Land Registry (Registro de la Propiedad) require. We also check the tracks and irrigation ditches that act as boundaries, because they are often not where the cadastral map puts them.

Houses on the foothills

At the foot of the mountain there are urbanisations and isolated houses built in the 1970s and 1980s, many of them on rural land. To regularise, sell or renovate them you need a georeferenced plan of the plot and of what has been built. We draw it up and, if the house has some years behind it, we prepare the certificate of age and the cadastral building location report (ICUC) to register it.

Near La Murta and La Casella the mountain is protected, and any work starts by checking where the plot ends and the natural area begins.

Orange warehouses and industrial units

Alzira has a strong agri-food industry, with citrus warehouses and units on industrial estates. For extensions we carry out preliminary surveys, structural setting out and earthworks volume calculations, with the data the site management team asks for.

Typical cases in Alzira

A farmer who wants to merge four adjoining orange groves to modernise the irrigation. A buyer who asks whether the house they are about to buy is in a flood zone. An architect designing a house at the foot of the mountain who needs the topography. A company extending its warehouse that needs the setting out of the new building.