2024-06-16 17:06:14
Curanilahue, the so-called “floor zero” of the frontal system, was affected by the overflow of three water channels that cross town, whereas Pudahuel was the “face” of the emergency within the capital.
Within the final days, A big a part of the south-central space of the nation has been affected by a frontal system that has to this point left 6,392 victims. in keeping with the newest steadiness sheet carried out by La Moneda.
Of that determine, 6,309 correspond to the Biobío Areathe place one of many communes most affected by the rains is situated: Curanilahue, the so-called “zone zero” of the frontal system.
This, since The city of just about 34 thousand inhabitants noticed the overflow of the Curanilahue River, along with the Ranas River and the Las Plegarias estuary, which precipitated town to stay virtually beneath water, inflicting severe injury to the properties and belongings of these affected.
Given this, Mayor Alejandra Burgos Bizama (IND-FA) said that they’re nonetheless ready to develop the grasp plan to channel rainwaterwhich was introduced nearly a decade in the past and whose authorization has been pending since 2023.
Burgos Bizama defined to Emol that the grasp plan entails an funding of $15 billion and it’ll not solely profit Curanilahue, but additionally Lebu and Arauco.
“As they’re communes with only a few inhabitants, on the time of finishing up the evaluations of the Ministry of Social Improvement, we discovered that the initiatives should not have a good suggestion as a result of quantity of people that inhabit the territory. This complicates us as a result of we might by no means be capable of have entry to works of this magnitude, as a result of we will be unable to have the variety of folks for it,” he argued.
The works take into account the channeling of the Curanilahue River, the institution of programmed flood zones and the reconstruction of a rainwater assortment community.
“If we had had these works, in all probability the influence we might have can be a lot much less and we may comprise it solely with the same old assets {that a} commune requires to perform,” he assured.
Pudahuel underwater
Within the Metropolitan Area, the commune most affected by rainfall was Pudahuel, the place Villa San Juan Valdés was fully flooded, which led to the flooding of properties and even using inflatable boats to get round.
This example precipitated despair among the many neighbors, since regardless of the streets collapsing as a result of degree of fallen water, the passage to autos was not closed, which precipitated water to enter their properties.
“If you happen to see that it’s flooded, you shouldn’t go as a result of who’s liable for the issues we misplaced? No one, and all of the neighbors are the identical,” certainly one of them informed CHV Noticias.
Added to this was the closure of Route 68 in the direction of Valparaíso on the peak of the Teniente Cruz underpass.which was fully flooded, after the mud coated the drains on the street.
Confronted with these episodes, Mayor Italo Bravo (IND) declared that “if we don’t need to collapse town, we’re going to want an funding within the Santa Colina canal that has not been completed for a very long time.”