Madrid asks for optimum warning within the Manzanares river space because of overflow danger | News from Madrid | EUROtoday

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The dam of El Pardo releasing water for the accumulated rains, this Wednesday, in an image of Madrid emergencies.

The heavy rains within the Community of Madrid, the place March has been registered with extra rainfall since there’s information, in addition to the unwins of the swamps to cut back the strain, have triggered an enormous improve within the circulate of the rivers that cross the area, particularly the Manzanares, which passes by way of the capital. Given the danger of overflow, the Madrid mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has requested on Wednesday on the Vallecas bridge most warning to those that need to journey by way of the world of ​​the Manzanares river between Mingorrubio and the bridge of the French.

“The Rio apprentice is already going to Rio for once. It is controlled, both for security and emergency services but, please, that people have caution and do not approach those areas that are more easily flooded,” Almeida claimed. On Wednesday evening the department that joins the M-30 with the M-40, at kilometer 25, by warning in opposition to doable overflow was already minimize.

During the day, the Tajo Hydrographic Confederation (CHT) elevated the river’s unbridled rhythm. Almeida recalled: “We have to be alert and extreme precautions because obviously both the rains and the mouths that are producing can generate consequences.”

The City Council has knowledgeable residents by way of social networks that didn’t strategy the atmosphere of the river or the pedestrian paths that transit it. Emergencies Madrid gave, close to midnight on Wednesday, the precautionary warning within the atmosphere of the non -channeled river areas, given the extent of the Manzanares degree, and requested to observe the suggestions by way of the official channels. The areas the place the passage was completely prohibited have already been beacted.

The Mobility Management Center, depending on the City Council of the Capital, communicated in its portal of the social community X that the central authorities had carried out the overall minimize of the M-30 department outdoors the M-40 as a measure of prevention by danger of overflow.

The Government delegate in Madrid, Francisco Martín, visited the Madrid prey of El Pardo and the Manzanares river on Wednesday, the place he additionally referred to as for “maximum caution” nowadays with the warning of extra rainfall and the thaw within the summits of the Sierra. “We are very vigilant of how these unwins are being made and contributions from rainfall are increasing the riverbed,” he instructed Europa Press.

The delegate recalled on Wednesday that within the morning the CECOPI Advisory Committee had been held with the Security and Emergency Agency of the Community of Madrid (ASEM 112), wherein the State, Regional and Municipal Security and Emergency Entities participated. In addition, a part of the M-215 has been minimize because of the danger of overflowing of the Tajuña River within the city of Ambite.


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