the quartermaster Julio Garrotogether with municipal authorities and the UNLP, presented this Friday the progress of the Risk Reduction Plan launched after the tragic flood of 2013. At the event, which was held at the Teatro Coliseo Podestá, The steps to follow in the second stage of implementation of the plan were also proposed..
“For many years the City grew without planningentire neighborhoods settled in flood zonesand while the university alerted what could happen, nobody did anything“, affirmed Garro during his speech and concluded:” Today we can say that our city is not the sameBecause there is planning, there is an emergency system that works in a coordinated manner; there is a State present that, in the face of any climatic event, will be there, on the street and in the neighborhoods to assist and accompany each person from La Plata”.
Among the advances presented, it was reported that since 2016 a plan was launched that included more than 40 kilometers of hydraulic worksincluding the adequacy and revetment of the Del Gato creek, the shunt construction of 31 and 143, of storm drains in basins of the Maldonado stream and Zoo and new bridges and pedestrian crossings on the streams Martín, Carnaval, Pérez, Garibaldi and Don Carlos.
Within said plan, municipal authorities informed that the Municipal Emergency Operating Committee (COEM), for monitoring climatic events in different neighborhoods and coordinating response actions with SAME, Civil Protection, Firefighters, Red Cross, Local Police and Neighborhood Assistance Line 147. The installation of 26 weather stations and sensors in all streams, the Emergency Medical Care System (SAME) and the ‘Climate MLP’ app‘, are also part of the progress.
The Secretary of Government and head of the COEM, Marcelo Leguizamon; the secretary of Coordination of the Commune, Oscar Negrelli; the engineer Pablo Romanazzithe Secretary of Health, Enrique Rifourcat and the director of Hydrometeorology, Mauricio Saldivar.
SECOND STAGE OF THE RISK REDUCTION PLAN
During the event held at the Podestá Coliseum, the advances of the second stage of the Risk Reduction Plan among which are the updating and improvement of the flood risk maps in the Partido; were designed prevention, emergency and neighborhood reconstruction devices in the face of extreme meteorological events and will have training programs, manuals and action protocols in the event of an emergency for neighbors, which will be distributed in the communal delegations.
Framed in an agreement signed by the local mayor and the president of the UNLP, Martín López Armengol, the plan will be applied in the more than 350 neighborhoods of the Party and it will cover the drainage systems belonging to the Samborombón river basin and those with its slope. After presenting the progress, Mayor Julio Garro concluded: “Another, in my place, could tell you that the city is never going to flood again, but I would be lying to you. No one can affirm that, what we can say is the following: the day that touches us, we will be prepared“.
