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In the county of Campillo, the most affected area after the rains, during this weekend, nine shovels and five trucks have worked to adapt roads and highways, in addition to the work done by tractors and machines in other districts to open evacuation routes of the stagnant water.
The mayor of Lorca, Diego José Mateos, has taken stock, this morning, of the damages caused after the rainy episode of the last days in the municipality of Lorca.
The mayor of Lorca said that this morning it has been possible to resume normal activity in schools, municipal buildings, and health centers, among others.
And it has affirmed that "the damages by the rains have been numerous, according to the initial valuation, although we are still waiting for the definitive data, since they are still evaluating different areas in which the rain caused more problems, such as Campillo or Purias. "
Mateos stressed that "all the staff of the Local Police and Emergency Services, as well as Civil Protection volunteers and other members of the Special Emergency Device for the arrival of DANA have been involved in their work during this rainy episode ", and has specified that in addition" there have been hundreds of actions that have been carried out by individuals in collaboration with the different pedáneos who we also want to thank for the fundamental collaboration they have given us. "
In the deputation of Campillo, during this weekend, nine shovels and five trucks have worked, in addition to the work done through tractors and machines in other districts, with the aim of adapting the land and opening evacuation routes of stagnant water , "some work that we hope can be completed in the next few hours. Work to which we must add the 98 actions carried out from Works with the help of 10 companies.
Through the municipal cleaning company, Limusa, small trawlers have been removed by hand with personnel and vans in different streets and other large-scale ones with mini and mixed shovel type machinery.
Many of the workers who were not on duty went to their jobs voluntarily, which allowed a crash action to be carried out and to minimize the consequences.
Aguas de Lorca has also been throughout the rainy episode facing several incidents, pumping infrastructures and drinking water reservoirs have been reviewed, in addition to monitoring by remote control of consumption by sector to detect possible failures.
So far, 36 failures caused by the rains have been recorded, 10 of them in the coastal districts, 4 in the high districts, 10 in the southern ones, 3 faults in La Hoya, 3 in the Campillo area, 3 in the Diputación de Río and another 3 in the Torrecilla area.
There has also been a review of collectors and firefighters in the sewerage network, through which two significant breaks have been detected, one the Vado Bridge (derived from third-party works) and another one next to the La Rueda Garden.
In the coming days to prevent possible changes in water quality resulting from storms, chlorine levels will be reinforced and drinking water controls will be intensified.
From Friday in the early hours, work has been carried out with buckets with vats in the streets where less intense and round trawls accumulated.
In all the affected areas our high-volume sweepers have been working, as well as in the rest of the streets and crossings.
Mateos has specified that "since this morning, we continue to carry out work of cleaning and mechanical sweeping in various affected areas, and will continue to be flushed continuously every night, reviewing and servicing all the streets that need it."
The Municipal Electric Service has also been working during these days attending the different notices, 24 hours a day, to avoid further complications.
In Health there have been no incidents due to the rains and this morning the health care was restored, which had to be interrupted during the day on Friday as many of the professionals coming from Murcia could not reach their jobs.
Due to this rainy episode, the Social Services have had to carry out the relocation of two families, one from the village of La Campana and another from Cañada Morales.
In Education, during these last days all the educational centers have been visited to check their status and in some of them, as is the case of Purias, Virgen de las Huertas had to make bilges, and in the Campillo park, park the parking lot with sand.
In Culture, all personnel have been available to the City Council during these rainy days, many of them preventing water from entering municipal buildings.
From the Department of Tourism it was also decided to paralyze the activity that is carried out in the Fortress of the Sun and in the Synagogue, due, above all, to the detachment of stones on the road down the Castle.
In the historic center there have been a total of 21 urban interventions, especially due to small landslides of elements of old buildings caused by rain.
Regarding Sports, only the marking of some areas of the CD had to be carried out.
La Torrecilla, the rest of sports facilities were not damaged.
The mayor also wanted to thank the work of the different media that from the first day informed about everything that was happening in our municipality, and what is more important, allowing our messages of caution and notices to reach the population, which has avoided great consequences ". And it has highlighted" the perfect coordination and communication "that has occurred through the whastapp groups, one in which all the pedáneos are included, and another with those responsible for different municipal services, "In this case we have verified that the new well used technologies bring us many benefits when it comes to being informed."
Local Police and Emergency Service Performances
During these days the Local Police of Lorca has registered a total of 158 telephone requirements, especially marking ramblas and cutting roads and roads that were flooded by water.
In addition, during these days, taking advantage of the drone available to the Police, aerial shots have been taken to see the extent of the damage.
As for Emergencies, through the remote post of 112, a total of about 200 issues related to the rainy season were processed between Thursday and Sunday, in addition to about 50 consultation calls about the state of the communication routes of our municipality.
A series of actions have been carried out in which several areas of the municipality of Lorca have been affected, up to a total of 46 issues in areas of Campillo, La Torrecilla and San Cristóbal neighborhood.
Specifically in Campillo this Sunday, water was reduced from a house located on the Camino de la Torre, in which about 400 m3 were evacuated with four bilge equipment, but, above all, the biggest problems have been recorded in the way of the Casa Romero, also in Campillo, because of the great water embalming that affects many homes and that could be considered the 'zero zone' of this rainy season.
But there were also drains in La Campana in the basement of a house in which about 500 m3 were evacuated and before another 700 m3 of the plot through which the basement had to be accessed.
Also in the IESO of Purias, where about 500 m3 were evacuated, working simultaneously five bilge equipment.
From the Emergency and Civil Protection Service there have also been various landslides and sanitation of various branches and removal of stones and telephone pole.
13 issues related to road traffic, 50 related to road cleaning and road cuts.
3 due to calls from flooded streets and sewage problems, and several rescues and rescue of people who could not pass or leave their vehicles due to the large amount of water accumulated (Venta Ceferino, Camino Vera, Camino Las Crucecicas, Camino Cabalreros and Camino La Tower).
In addition, the transfer was carried out of a person who had to receive treatment and who could not leave his home and who was helped through 4X4 vehicles.
Finally, the mayor has announced that this afternoon he will hold a meeting, in order to make a damage assessment, with the different agricultural cooperatives and with the Irrigation Community.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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