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The mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, has announced that the City Council of Cartagena is going to overturn in the recovery of the riverside populations of the Mar Menor, which have been the most affected during the severe rainy episode experienced early Friday morning, with historical records of rainfall, as in the most prominent case of El Algar, where Hydrogea rain gauges accounted for an accumulated of 349 liters per square meter and 246 liters in just one hour.
The mayor has appeared with the vice mayor and the second deputy mayor, Noelia Arroyo and Manuel Padín, after holding a second Emergency Coordination meeting with the heads of municipal services in the last 12 hours.
Castejón has assured that the worst of the storm has passed although the yellow alert is maintained, and with it the precautionary measures, maintaining today the suspension and closing of sports facilities, libraries, cultural centers, popular festivals and markets.
This measure could be extended at the weekend depending on the meteorological evolution.
He has also recommended continuing to avoid unnecessary displacement and, of course, crossing waterways or in the vicinity of waterways.
Ana Belén Castejón explained that the services that have been activated during this morning were designed in a previous meeting called yesterday before the threat of torrential rains, which has finally been fulfilled.
The device focused on providing for the evacuation of flood zones, detecting rain-sensitive constructions and prioritizing actions in areas with risk to the safety of people.
Evacuation formulas, meeting points and places of accommodation for evacuees were established throughout the municipality.
The device consisted of local police, firefighters, civil protection, infrastructure service officials and municipal transport units of the company ALSA.
According to the mayor, the work has been carried out without major incidents, although it must have occurred under rains that were already of great intensity and that were ahead of time and quantity to the forecasts.
MIDDLE RESCUE MEDIUM
For the mayor, it has been a very complicated night in which more than 150 notices have been attended, of them about fifty rescued people trapped, both in cars and in their own homes.
Castejón has thanked all the people who have worked tirelessly to ensure the safety of Cartagena and avoid further damage.
Especially Local Police, Firefighters, Civil Protection, Volunteers, and municipal workers of Infrastructure, Social Services and Sports, as well as Hidrogea, Lhicarsa and Alsa concessionaires, who have collaborated at all times.
DISPLACED PEOPLE
Ana Belén Castejón has also reported on the situation of people who had to be evicted in Los Nietos and Villas Caravaning.
Those of Los Nietos, initially taken to the local school, have already been accommodated in family homes, with plans to provide them with food from Social Services.
As for the 130 people displaced from Villas Caravaning, the mayor has indicated that there are 106 left in the Central Sports Pavilion and that this accommodation and attention service will be maintained until there are guarantees that they can safely return to the campsite.
PRIORITY IN THE LOWER SEA POPULATIONS
The mayor has announced that the priority action of the municipal government, will now be to recover normalcy and especially in the towns of the Mar Menor, without forgetting other fronts in the rest of the municipality such as the Peroniño area, the Corner of Sumiedo, the Rambla del Grill on Isla Plana and El Algar, among others.
It will also have the work of Lhicarsa and Hidrogea to clean the effects of the rains and the elimination of flooded areas.
OPENING OF SCHOOLS
Another objective of the municipal government will be going back to school.
For this, the schools and educational centers of the municipality are being supervised so that they can open on Monday.
The mayor has commented that there are places like in La Aljorra where the center is flooded and there are machines drawing water, although it will be difficult to open on Monday.
In Los Urrutias, the town is completely flooded and it has not even been possible to access the school, while in Pozo Estrecho the problem lies in the access situation.
NINE ROADS STILL CUT
It is also working to open the nine roads to traffic, of the 14 that had to be closed due to waterlogging.
Those that are still pending are:
Albujón road to the Aljorra
The Blessed Crossing of the Reeds
F35 departure from La Puebla - Cruce de las Cañas
RM12 in La Manga
F-36 La Palma to Torre Pacheco
F-51 from Pozo Estrecho to Torre Pacheco
Alhama Old Road (E-602)
Santa Ana Road (Siphon Road)
Pozo Estrecho, El Albujón and La Puebla
Four ways
Road of the Latin American Neighborhood to Marfagones Mills, next to the Lamps factory.
FEATURED PRECIPITATIONS
For the mayor, the rainfall recorded by the Hidrogea rain gauge network shows the seriousness and importance of the episode, in which it has rained a lot and in a very short time, and the services have worked.
Thus, for example, in the Algar, an accumulated was reached during the early morning of 349 liters that has accumulated, falling 246 in just one hour.
The rest have been the following:
The Albujón → 287.7 lm2 / 24 hours, with an intensity of 157 liters in one hour.
Pozo Estrecho → 235 lm2 / 24 hours, has arrived
Quarries → 139.3 lm2 / 24 hours
Perín → 109.6 lm2 / 24 hours
San José Obrero → 101.6 lm2 / 24 hours
La Azohía → 73.2 lm2 / 24 hours
Playa Honda → 283 with intensity of 226 liters in one hour.
La Puebla → 271 in one hour and 286 accumulated.
Los Nietos → 241 in one hour and 257 accumulated.
Cabo de Palos → 147 liters in one hour and 215 accumulated
Calle Real → 163 accumulated, with intensity of 150 liters per hour.
Tentegorra → 124 liters of accumulated, with an intensity of 120 liters in one hour.
BUS LINES
Regarding the situation of the bus lines, the mayor has indicated that all urban areas have been restored, except for the 24 that links Pozo Estrecho, La Palma and Cartagena.
As for the intercity lines, the only one in which the service has not yet been restored has been that of Roche.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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