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After torrential rains in recent weeks produced in Catalonia, the Socialists urge that the channels that cross the municipality and policies of reforestation and conservation of the natural environment are enhanced cleaned.

Following episodes of flooding that occurred in recent weeks in Catalonia and other regions of the Spanish Mediterranean as a result of the precipitation of heavy rains of up to 89 liters per square meter, the Socialist Municipal Group, through the Alderman David Romera, urges the team Local government, the Autonomous Community and the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura, that appropriate measures to minimize the risk of possible flooding in Lorca ahead of this autumn, prone to developing cold drop phenomena that can generate adopt intensive rainfall, the overflow of the river channel and the flood of large sectors of the municipality.

Is still in the memory of many Lorca sad flooding occurred last September 28, 2012 (flood of St. Wenceslas), which generated six fatal victims, hundreds of people affected and economic losses of one hundred million euros.

Such measures should be aimed at the thorough cleaning of both the main collector of Guadalentín river as the wadis and ravines that you are tax (Rambla Salada, Seventeen Arcos de la Rosa, Caravaca, etc.) and other watercourses that are important flows that can generate as Torrecilla, Bejar, Viznaga or Ramonete.

This will prevent water drag materials and objects that may increase their destructive power and they progress down cleanly channel.

But they must also implement other equally important measures to prevent desertification and generating floods in residential areas of the garden and the valley such as reforestation to retain water in the soil in the hills of the upper part ( action must be taken immediately in the Sierra del Almirez after the fire suffered last days);

correction slopes and placement of dams in riverbeds to curb erosion;

and it is very important to the completion of the Plan of Flood Control in the upper reaches of the streams of the Torrecilla, Bejar, Nogalte and Vilerda, where the construction of several dams in flood control is expected to prevent rains occur when large intensity, the inhabited area in the valley area and they were punished in 2012 (Torrecilla, Campillo, Cazalla, Puri, listening, almond) are flooded.

Likewise, it is essential to educate people about the risk of flooding and possible crises that may occur, with information campaigns for the residents of Lorca know what to do during and after an episode of rains character generating driving with possible flooding.

Source: PSOE Lorca