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The various agencies and the concessionaire met today to assess the municipal device for preventing this weather phenomenon, which maintenance tasks such as cleaning the sewers, pumping stations and scuppers adds
The city of Cartagena is coordinated to deal with potential torrential rains that often occur at this time in the town. Throughout the entire year working to prevent this Weather phenomenon that worsens during this month, and although there are no alerts, the technical means are ready to perceived threat, explained this morning Councillor for Infrastructure, Francisco Espejo.
This Friday, the 19th, the coordination meeting of the municipal device available to prevent rain, chaired by the Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, and who attended also the mayor of Infrastructure held in the Town Hall, Deputy Mayor, José Cabezas, the Security council, Mariano García, General Safety Coordinator, Juan Antonio Calabria, and the various municipal officers, and company representatives Hidrogea.
It is used in the protocol of actions an advanced technical system in which the metrological alarms for early warning of a possible rainfall process.
We clarified the council today to ensure no rain forecast until Thursday 26, although not of great intensity.
SEWER SYSTEM
Thus, performed preventive maintenance of sewers, which includes cleaning of gutters, collectors, pumping stations and urban sections of the streams, which since July until 15 September, intensified the already common throughout the whole year in the more than 1,000 miles of sewer.
So during that time about 5,500 scuppers, 10,000 existing throughout the municipality, were cleaned by being in flood areas, with works or woodland leaves and causes atranques follows.
Have also been checked and cleaned visitables large collectors. Cartagena has about 10 miles of such sewer lines large, that run through the city.
They recently finished cleaning collectors Paseo Alfonso XIII (Square section between Alicante and Sparta Street), Av. Painter Portela, the Gates of Murcia, Calle del Carmen and the Alameda de San Antón and Plaza Alcolea.
64 pumping stations sewage were also reviewed. Their most are remote controlled, so any failure is detected instantly and technical and human resources are organized to solve the problem before it affects customer.
For this cleaning and inspection of sewers have been used six mixed teams 1 and 1 pickup truck crane All Vac (sump).
A preventive cleanings, add 140 special review highlights regarded as conflicting, so they are in perfect condition in the rainy season.
RAMBLAS
As for the competition section of the City boulevards have been inspected a total of 30 of them in urban sections.
Currently already clean to the rains.
The clean boulevards are ramblizo Heliport Santa Ana, the Santa Ana North ramblizo the mouth of underground boulevard Avenida Nueva Cartagena, the Rambla de Mazarrón to Quarries from Naval Hospital Road, Rambla del Barrio Concepcion mouth of the Rambla Media League, the Ramblas in Vista Alegre, the inlet and outlet of the Rambla de Alums, Wadi El Algar and crossing the Rambla de Los Nietos Road with smaller islands.
Other watercourses inspected were those of Isla Plana, Tentegorra, Benipila, Los Barreros, the boundary crossing El Bohio Los Dolores, Miranda, Albujón, Llano del Beal, Los Nietos up to Los Belones, diversion channel Mar Cristal and 7 underground.
ALERT SYSTEM
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.
To find out when it will rain, 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.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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