This Monday, the DANA Research Commission has begun in the Senate, with the focus on technical profiles, since the first to be called have been two professors, an architect and an engineer, waiting for political positions to appear in the coming days.
The first to appear has been the professor of hydraulic engineering and environment at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) Juan Bautista Marco Segura, who has rejected that the Foramata dam was at a “serious risk” during the Dana of Valencia and there would be a danger of being broken.
«I do not agree that the Forata dam was at a serious risk. It is a severity, concrete dam, which did not even pour by coronation. He did not even reached the spillway limit, ”he said, who has also assured that the device of the Turia River” saved many lives “by preventing the southern sector of the city of Valencia from being flooded.
“If this infrastructure had not existed in all likelihood, the water would have reached the North Station and all the southern ector of the city would have been flooded,” said Segura, who explained that the city center would not have flooded because the flow that the Turia had “was much less than the capacity of the river, even the capacity of the old river.”
On the dam of Forata, the expert has stressed that the gates of a reservoir “must be opened”: “They are not to store water in a situation of flood, you have to open because the dams, if the water jumps over, can break.”
«The typology of Forata is the safest, but in general the dams, when the water jumps above is when a risk is really run. I would be very surprised that an Arcogravadic concrete prey, which is the safest guy that exists, that there would be height problems, ”he stressed.
Professor Baptist Marco Segura has added that, for a dam to be effective, “it has to be well managed, it has to be proportional to what will come, and it has to be of a safe guy.” «Because the dam is a double -edged sword, it works very well, but it can be broken. And if it breaks, it is worse, ”he warned.
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