In light of the recent and heavy rainfall, the Secretary of Urban Development of the Municipality of Concordia, Alejandro López, made a more than satisfactory assessment regarding the response of the city's reservoirs, drains, and culverts, highlighting that “throughout this year of administration, very strong work has been done on the recovery, maintenance, and repair of the different sectors.”
In this sense, the official gave the example of the actions carried out at the reservoir on Moulins and Concejal Veiga streets, “which is a public space; in appearance, it is like a small square, but it is a water reservoir for a storm drain conduit, and what it does is attenuate the injection of rainwater through the pipe network.”
The architect explained that “if that did not work, which has happened to us in previous rains, it overflows, the water runs down the street and affects an entire sector in the immediate surroundings.”
RECOVERY
López insisted that during this first year of administration, the focus was on recovering that reservoir and putting it into operation with a great deal of cleaning work, removing sediment that had accumulated over the years and which prevented its normal operation.
In addition, the Secretary of Urban Development reported that work is currently being carried out in the same direction in other reservoirs, such as the one on Route 4, near Federación. “We have been cleaning and expanding the capacity there for some time now.”
At the same time, the strategy is to recover various culverts and storm drains throughout the city, recalling what was done along the entire route of the Concordia stream piping, “which was also a problem, and a very important investment was made. These are works that are perhaps not seen, but they have an impact when it rains, and the sectors crossed by this watercourse no longer flood.”
Among the intervened places, he cited the case of the road to Tortuga Alegre. “There is a culvert there that had deteriorated, and at one point we were almost isolated, so a complete renovation job was done, and today it is finished.”
ASSESSMENT AND COLLABORATION
Observing the aforementioned details in the field, López stated that the assessment is positive because “we had significant rainfall and we did not have the problems that we did have at other times.”
Finally, he asked for the community's collaboration to keep spaces and reservoirs clean. “Residents are not asked to go down to clean, but they are asked not to throw trash because, in addition to polluting, it ends up clogging the storm drains. For this to work, it is essential that we all collaborate,” emphasized López.
In this sense, the official gave the example of the actions carried out at the reservoir on Moulins and Concejal Veiga streets, “which is a public space; in appearance, it is like a small square, but it is a water reservoir for a storm drain conduit, and what it does is attenuate the injection of rainwater through the pipe network.”
The architect explained that “if that did not work, which has happened to us in previous rains, it overflows, the water runs down the street and affects an entire sector in the immediate surroundings.”
RECOVERY
López insisted that during this first year of administration, the focus was on recovering that reservoir and putting it into operation with a great deal of cleaning work, removing sediment that had accumulated over the years and which prevented its normal operation.
In addition, the Secretary of Urban Development reported that work is currently being carried out in the same direction in other reservoirs, such as the one on Route 4, near Federación. “We have been cleaning and expanding the capacity there for some time now.”
At the same time, the strategy is to recover various culverts and storm drains throughout the city, recalling what was done along the entire route of the Concordia stream piping, “which was also a problem, and a very important investment was made. These are works that are perhaps not seen, but they have an impact when it rains, and the sectors crossed by this watercourse no longer flood.”
Among the intervened places, he cited the case of the road to Tortuga Alegre. “There is a culvert there that had deteriorated, and at one point we were almost isolated, so a complete renovation job was done, and today it is finished.”
ASSESSMENT AND COLLABORATION
Observing the aforementioned details in the field, López stated that the assessment is positive because “we had significant rainfall and we did not have the problems that we did have at other times.”
Finally, he asked for the community's collaboration to keep spaces and reservoirs clean. “Residents are not asked to go down to clean, but they are asked not to throw trash because, in addition to polluting, it ends up clogging the storm drains. For this to work, it is essential that we all collaborate,” emphasized López.