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The concessionaire of the municipal sewer system checks during these 5,500 days scuppers in the city and adjacent neighborhoods, as well as major collectors, pumping stations and urban sections of the streams
The Department of Planning and Infrastructure of the City of Cartagena, through the concessionaire of the water and sewerage networks, Hidrogea, check status during these scuppers, collectors, pumping stations and urban sections of the streams, in anticipation of the arrival of the rainy season.
According to the Councillor, Francisco Espejo, work began on 15 July and will run until September 15 and is an intensification of maintenance throughout the year that is performed on more than 1,000 kilometers sewer.
So during this time they are cleaned scuppers 5,500 of the 10,000 existing throughout the municipality, to be in flood zones, works or woodland leaves and causes atranques follows.
These sectors are:
- Cartagena helmet Jardín- The City Ensanche- Private Mediterranean- Bda.
Virgen de la Caridad Alameda San Anton- Bda.
The San Gines Algar- The Santa Ana Aparecida
Your cleaning performed with six teams and pressurized water
Also are reviewing and cleaning large visitables collectors.
Cartagena has about 10 miles of such sewer lines large, that run through the city.
Cleaned from the inside with exceptional security measures such as semi-autonomous breathing equipment, gas detectors, masks, safety harness and tripods, among others.
Recently they have finished cleaning the collectors on the streets:
- Paseo Alfonso XIII (Square section between Alicante and street Sparta) - Avda Pintor Portela doors Murcia- Calle del Carmen.
Currently being cleaned collectors: - Square Mall San Anton- Alcolea
It also is reviewing the 64 pumping stations sewage.
Are mostly remote controlled, so any failure is detected instantly and technical and human resources are organized to solve the problem before it affects customer.
A previous preventive cleanings, add 140 special review highlights regarded as conflicting, so they are in perfect condition when it starts raining.
Finally it is carrying out cleaning the urban sections of the channels of the streams. Currently is acting in urban boulevards of El Algar and some sections of the Rambla de Canteras, among others.
PROTOCOL OF RAIN AND FORECASTS METEREOLĂ "GICAS
A clean-up measures, organizational and other information are joined, such as the so-called rainy Protocol is activated through the remote control of Hidrogea where the organization of work and the staff designated for execution is reflected.
Furthermore track routes rains which involves checking the proper functioning of all elements of the sewer, trying to avoid pools of water on the street or overflows tapas in nine routes throughout the city is.
But as important is to prepare well for the rains as knowing when it will rain.
For the latter, there is a prediction system called WICAST Weather hazards.
As a complement, queries are performed in 10 meteorological sites several times a week.
With weather alerts and information obtained from the level meters in the sewer (gages), and thanks to the availability of a mathematical model that predicts the performance of the networks, early warning of areas we obtain they will flood in real time.
This system, called HIDROMET, lets you know where you are going to produce problems of each specific precipitation.
However, if an incident occurs, citizens can give their ads for 24 hours a day on the phone Hidrogea, 968 December 26, 00.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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