For the city streams not the water flows, but the garbage.
As they are dry by the lack of rain that the State has suffered for more than a year, the riverbeds have become clandestine dumps and there is no authority that assumes the task of cleaning or clearing them.
Monterrey, Santa Catarina, Guadalupe, San Nicolás, Escobedo, García and Apodaca suffer from this problem that, far from being resolved, is getting more complicated every day.
The Topo Chico and El Obispo streams they are the ones who accumulate more trash in the metropolitan area, as EL NORTE verified on a tour.
Tires, mattresses, bottles, sheets and wood, among many other wastes, can be seen with the naked eye in the Arroyo Topo Chico when you stand at the corner of Calle Terán and Calle Naranjo in the Colonia Constituyentes del 57, in Monterrey.
There, the inhabitants of regular and irregular terrain turned the dry tributary into a dump.
“It is that the trucks do not pass or do not fit through the streets, and well, the better the we throw there (the garbage)“, admitted a resident of that point.
Is trash, If it is not lifted, it will inevitably be dragged towards San Nicolás, where the channel is kept clean.
A similar situation exists in the Arroyo El Obispo, in Santa Catarina, where the clandestine dumps They cover 4 kilometers.
On Friday morning, it was observed that a truck of 3.5 tons packed with trash entered the creek.
Their objective, explained inhabitants of the sector, was to throw the trash and separate there what can be resold or recycled.
About 100 people who live on the banks of the stream, at the height of Colonia San Francisco, along Calle San Pedro, dedicate themselves to it.
“that truck collect the garbage in the area,” said a judge from Barrio, “then they dump it there, recycle and leave the rest.
“No one comes to do anything, it is very shameless,” he accused.
The site is guarded by people who do not allow entry to the creek to document the pollution.
The Arroyo Talaverna, which crosses Guadalupe and San Nicolás, is not spared from the trash.
At the height of the Colonia América Obrera, mattresses, dry trees, bottles and tires cover the concrete canal.
EL NORTE published last September that clandestine garbage dumps They stole an important section of the Pesquería River bed in the limits of Escobedo and Monterrey with a mega dump.
After the complaint, authorities promised to take action, but the garbage collector still there.
The same thing happened with a clandestine dump on the Santa Catarina River in Colonia Sabinitas.
And while municipal, state and federal authorities pass on to each other the responsibility of clean or deslugthe streams are still dirty.
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