2024-02-15 03:10:17
The community leader -Andrés Watson- verified the progress in the piping of one of the channels belonging to the Jiménez stream, at the junction of Remedios de Escalada and Las Américas streets, in López Romero. The Mayor confirmed “branch No. 29 with 22 blocks of extension for drainage in the area. On this corner, the neighbors gathered files with photos or testimonies of the great floods that generated innumerable obstacles.”
The highest district authority spoke of “the importance of the works that were financed with national funds that, in this case, we continue with municipal resources.” He assured “the wait for the re-determinations made due to inflation variations and the approval from the federal government to complete the intervention.”
Visiting the lubricenter in the vicinity, Pedro Carruba recounted his memories of watching the workers place the pipes. “50 years of residence here, 50 years with flooding. They came, they fixed it superficially, but the problem continued,” he recalled. “My wife and I went back and forth a lot when we went shopping. Trucks or buses passed by and the current entered the houses,” added the man who appreciated the tasks as “necessary.”
Antonio Baldino, president of the neighborhood Development Society, recalled the rainy days. “It was a drama, we couldn’t move. Traffic was impossible. Sometimes, we put up danger tape to prevent traffic,” he said. “Every request we made to the Municipality, they fulfilled it. Each task was inventive, we feel grateful to the management,” he concluded.
Settled in a home a few meters from where the conduits were installed, Eduardo Bussolo listed “impossibilities when entering, even for ambulances, with the rainfall.” “I did not think, because of my age, that I would see the project finished,” said the man who expressed “I would be happy to pay my taxes with these results.” He also valued hygiene, comprehensive security and waste collection.