2023-05-05 16:48:07
A large sign, which notes the amount financed by the Development Bank of Ecuador (BDE), is at the entrance of the ’emblematic project’ Maguazo-Alao, which promises to provide 24-hour water to the city. To access, the road is irregular, and according to the residents before the arrival of the project, everything was forest, being clear the difference that exists in the intake, that is, in the catchment of the Maguazo river, where it is already built, and the nature What is higher up where the river is born… What is the same HAPPEN?
Sepal. An infrastructure that is ‘abandoned’ captures water. The gates for him to pass are closed and don’t work either. Pedro Tixi, representative of the 27 communities, in his interventions, looks upset and outraged. “We know how much the river can grow, we live here,” he said. He was also upset because, according to his perspective, the structure that is built does not have fixed foundations, since they have done it on a fill of the material from the river itself; this is a danger. Moreover, for the outgoing mayor Jorge Morocho: “it would be irresponsible to abandon this robbery, this corruption, the largest in the history of Riobamba.”
Case. The community members are waiting to see who no longer arrives. They are clear in saying that they will not let the tasks continue until they fulfill the offers, which are 3: the road, the reconstruction of the four streams that were “destroyed” and the delivery of 92 cents per meter for water.
Namely. Every 15 days a report was given to the Public Works Commission to give an account of how the project is progressing. As noted in past editions, according to the reports in civil works and others there was progress between 65 and 100% of the work; however, when covering the 34 km of the work in its 4 phases, ‘half-done’ tasks are evident, uncovered pipes, flooded valve chambers mixed with sewage; At the Alao Station there is material out in the open and flooded machinery, on which there is a cast slab on a landfill next to the Chambo River. “The river grows and carries it away; a heavy machine fell into the river for that very reason,” the community members said angrily.
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