The effects of the continuous storms that hit the Iberian Peninsula for several weeks have caused floods in several rivers in Spain, leaving many scenes of floods and overflows. He Manzanares river, In Madrid, he is one of those who threatens to overflow and cause floods because of the storm Martinho that will be noted in the Community of Madrid from this Thursday. The community and the City Council have activated the emergency plans against flooding due to the potential risk that the Madrid river will overflow due to the expected rains. The authorities do not rule out cutting sections of some roads such as M-30, M-40 or A-6.
The Manzanares river is a tributary of Jarama, which in turn feeds the Tagus, and runs only through the Community of Madrid. Although it is a river usually calm and several dams control its channel to avoid getting out of control, it has suffered grown registered in various moments of stories. On some occasions causing significant damage to the city.
In April 1884, one of the first of which is recorded. At that time, the lack of measures caused the effects of flooding to be much more serious than one could think. Subsequently, in 1906, another flood destroyed the green bridge of Florida, a wooden structure near where the Puente de la Reina Victoria is located today. Only four years later, in 1910, the Garrido bridge, also of wood, succumbed to the force of the apple -trees of Manzanares.
In 1917, a new flood took a pedestrian catwalk in front of the missing Prairie del Corregidor, in San Antonio de la Florida, flooding the meadow for several days. Already in 1936, before the outbreak of the Civil War, the Manzanares experienced a flood that almost exceeded the limit of the Bridge of the Republic, known today as Puente del Rey.
On March 5, 1947, a flood completely flooded the pool the island, located on a natural island of the upstream river of the King’s bridge. Firefighters had to rescue several trapped employees using zip.
One of the most remembered floods occurred on January 20, 1966. The Manzanares floods especially affected the section between the King’s bridge and the Toledo bridge, as well as the Vallecas area, where the Abroñigal stream overflowed, causing significant floods.
Today, thanks to the regulation of flow through reservoirs such as Santillana and Pardo and the existence of urban dams, the risk of flooding in Madrid has been considerably reduced.
