Les Valls de Valira expropriates land for the new Anserall water supply

The City Council of Les Valls de Valira has initially approved the project “New high-level water supply in Anserall” and, at the same time, has initiated the expropriation process for the assets and rights necessary to execute it. The agreement was adopted by the Local Governing Board in the session of November 10, 2026, and is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Lleida no. 218, of November 13, 2026 (CVE BOP-2026_0_218_9644, p. 1). Affected owners now have a period of twenty days to appear and present allegations.

The project is processed under file 175/2026, and the agreement of the Local Governing Board is not limited to the technical approval of the infrastructure: it also incorporates the approval of the declaration of public utility of the action and the declaration of the necessity of occupying the assets and rights listed in the concrete and individualized list accompanying the project. In other words, the City Council recognizes that the work will require the use of land or rights belonging to third parties and opens the way to obtain them through the force of compulsory expropriation if no prior agreement is reached.

Anserall is the center where the municipality has the Town Hall, at the square s/n, postal code 25798, according to the data collected by the same gazette in the City Council’s announcements. Les Valls de Valira is a municipality in Alt Urgell that provides water service to several population centers, and the new project focuses on the “high-level” supply, that is, the part of the network that carries water from the catchment area to the reservoirs and distribution points.

Twenty days to appear and review the file

The announcement opens, in accordance with article 83.2 of Law 39/2015, a hearing and public information process for those who may consider themselves interested parties in the file. The conditions of the process are as follows:

• A period of twenty days to appear and formulate allegations, suggestions, or claims.
• The file can be consulted at the municipal offices of the City Council of Les Valls de Valira.
• The publication of the announcement in the gazette serves as notification to the interested parties in cases where personal notification of the granting of the process cannot be carried out.

Only amendments to the list of assets and rights

The scope of the allegations is restricted by the very nature of the action. The text recalls that, according to article 19.2 of the Compulsory Expropriation Law (LEF), when expropriation is necessary for the execution of the works, only those allegations formulated to correct possible errors in the list of assets or rights to be expropriated will be admitted.

For owners, this means that the open discussion is not about the opportunity or the design of the supply project, but about whether the list of affected estates, easements, and rights correctly reflects reality. Checking the sheets of the project’s individualized list therefore becomes the key action for those affected.

Another closed project in the same session

The publication of November 13 includes a second announcement from the same City Council, also derived from the Local Governing Board of November 10, 2026. In this case, it is a final approval:

• Project “Specific improvement works for the safety of the access road to Calbinyà”, file 105/2026.
• It is definitively approved after no claims were submitted during the public exhibition period of the initial agreement.
• The publication is made in accordance with article 38 of Decree 179/1995, of June 13, and the announcement is also inserted on the municipal notice board and the e-board.

Both documents are electronically signed on November 11, 2026.

The relevance of the news is twofold for the residents of Anserall and the rest of the municipality: on one hand, a drinking water supply work is launched that affects the daily operation of the service; on the other, the opening of the expropriation file establishes a timeline that obliges affected owners to review the list of assets within a period of twenty days, after which the means to correct errors in the list will be much more limited.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Lleida, no. 218, November 13, 2026, Local Administration - City Councils, p. 1 (official reference: BOP-2026_0_218_9644).