He Cordoba Town Hallthrough a transversal agreement between the Municipal Directorate of Urban Planning and the Municipal Water Company of Cordoba (Emacsa), laid the foundations to provide a solution to a historic flooding problem in the region. Avenue Corregidor … and the surroundings of the hermitage of Nuestra Señora de la Salud.
The action, which will require a total investment of 3.5 million euros, will be executed in two phases and will have an overall duration estimated at 22 months: four months for the first phase and 18 months for the second, with the aim of offering a global solution and definitive to a problem that has been going on for years in this part of the city.
In a first phase, with an estimated cost of 400,000 euros, the independence of Collector Arroyo del Moro in the Corregidor area by installing anti-return systems. This measure will prevent the loading of the said collector from causing flooding on Corregidor Avenue.
The second phase, which will complete the investment to the tune of 3.5 million euros, will consist of the execution of a independent collector for the area of the hermitage of Notre-Dame du Health and Avenida del Corregidor, accompanied by a “small storm reservoir”, which will be connected to the marginal collector and the weirs existing.
Drainage
This action will allow episodes to heavy rain and improve the drainage capacity of the entire area, as claimed by the water company.
The president of Emacsa, Daniel Garcia-Ibarrolaunderlined that this project “reveals the interest of the Córdoba City Council in anticipating the effects of climate change, which are increasingly manifesting themselves with greater intensity and forcing us to adopt mitigation measures”. prevention facing future extreme situations.
Collaboration with neighbors allows us to confront what the Town Hall considers to be “a historic problem”
García-Ibarrola also highlighted that “today it is a reason for satisfaction because, thanks to the coordination between the Department of Municipal Urban Planning and Emacsa, and above all the collaboration with the residents of Corregidor Avenue, it has been possible to present a definitive project that will allow solving a historical problem in this area.”
In this sense, the president of the municipal company stressed that this intervention is part of the municipal policy of adaptation to the climate changewhich responds to the greater frequency of episodes of heavy and more intense rain than usual, and which is part of a global city plan and a future emergency plan against extreme rainacting as a priority in the most vulnerable points of the sanitation network.
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