The Municipal Civil Defense Board and the Emergency Operations Committee (COE) inform the community that:
Taking into account the evolution of the Uruguay River levels and the report issued by the Hydrology Department of the Salto Grande Joint Technical Commission (CTM) this noon, Mayor Enrique Cresto called for a new meeting of Civil Defense and the COE. It took place early this afternoon.
In this meeting, CTM technicians ratified their projections, indicating that at the Binational Complex “until 3:00 PM tomorrow, the evacuated flow will vary between 16,000 and 17,500 m³/s”, consequently “the maximum and minimum levels referred to the port of Concordia are estimated at 11.20 and 9.50 meters, respectively”. Meanwhile, “the reservoir level will tend towards 33.00 meters”.
Given this forecast:
- A team from the COE and the municipality's Social Development department will intensify patrols in flood-prone areas to recommend precautions and inform residents, merchants, and sports clubs located near the river about the situation in a personalized manner.
- Preventively, for its actions, the COE will take an 11.50-meter level as a reference (although the CTM report projects 11.20), in order to take the necessary measures as established by the corresponding protocols.
- With the same preventive purpose, at this time the Electric Cooperative is patrolling the coastal area and disabling electricity connections at the levels projected by CTM.
- For logistical and practical reasons, the COE will install a permanent operations base in one of the rooms of the Concordia Convention Center.
- Starting today, Civil Defense and the COE will issue an information report with the latest updates regarding the situation (after the estimates from the CTM Hydrology Department are known and the daily operational coordination meetings are concluded).
Finally, Civil Defense and the COE send a message of calm and responsibility to the community, recommending that they be guided by the daily and official reports that will be disseminated by the media, avoiding rumors and the viralization of erroneous information on social networks.