The municipality of Torrentthe second with the highest number of inhabitants of the province of Valencia, was again prey to fear on Tuesday, when The rains flooded the Horteta ravine and caused a new overflow and flooded roads, roads and roads in an area whose proximity inhabit more than 10,000 people in summer, of the 93,000 of the municipality.
For six months, the mayor of Torrent, the popular Amparo folgado, it has been warning of danger and denouncing the “Inaction” of the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation. The latter, an agency under the Ministry of Ecological Transition, directed by Sara Aagesen. Folgado has warned of the loss of the natural bed of the ravine, of the destruction of the slopes and that there are no infrastructure that contain a flood upstream. Your demand remains unanswered by the Executive of Pedro Sánchez.
The key to the problem is that the Barranco de la Horteta, one of those who swept everything in its path in the flood of this October 29, has been almost bottomless. The sediments dragged from above have been accumulating and subtracting depth from the bed. Now, It behaves like «an uncontrollable channel». With the rains, it is immediately collapsed. And its water ends roads and roads. It is what happened this Tuesday, as evidenced by the image that illustrates this information.
The mayor of Torrent, Amparo Folgado, has been six months, those who have elapsed since the Dana, denouncing the inaction of the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar (CHJ) and, consequently, of the Ministry of Ecological Transition, directed by Sara Aagesen. Thus, the paradox has been given that while the minister announced in the Senate that in May she will travel to Valencia to explain “everything that has been done”, the ghost of a new flood toured the streets of Torrent. Precisely, because nothing has been done.
This March 9, Okdiario published that the Government of Spain had been, more than four months, without the Executive or the CHJ himself having opened the debate with the municipalities affected by the overflow of the poyo to launch A plan that definitely avoids The risk of flooding that looms in each storm.
On those same dates, Amparo folgado already claimed the urgent need to convene a Inter -administrative work table to address the situation of the ravines. The demand, according to municipal sources, has been repeated this same April 14 “given the generalized passivity of the organs with direct competence.”
Torrent’s 6 measures in front of a Dana
The Six measures that amparo folgado claims to properly channel the ravines and avoid catastrophes like those of the day of the Dana are:
- The material withdrawal To reduce the beds of channels
- The reconstruction and slope reinforcement
- The cleaning urgent of the channels
- Water retention areas, azudes and rolling rafts in the high sections of the ravines so that the Avenues are controlled from its origin
- A territorial, regional and integral vision of the basin, No isolated actions in urban sections that only move the problem downstream
- A real budget commitment With a clear execution schedule, with inter -administrative financing and shared political will
The mayor of Torrent has asked: “How many alerts are needed?” And he has warned that: «The threat is real, danger is constant and inaction is already unjustifiable». The situation is so serious that, as the amparo folgado has also stated: “Every time rain threatens, fear is installed in the areas adjacent to the ravines in Torrent and in many municipalities downstream.” “The danger is not abstract, it is real,” he said.
