The Emergency Coordination Center (CCE) of the Generalitat Valenciana monitors the state of the Buseo reservoir dam, located in the municipality of Chera (València), and reports that it remains in Scenario 2, with stable levels, while It seems to be starting to go down.
According to the DANA report during the night, the firefighters of the Castelló Consortium have not had to carry out services related to the rain while those of València have continued to carry out numerous aid services, especially for the elderly.
Late on Thursday, the City Council of the Valencian municipality of Sot de Chera informed the CCE of the preventive eviction of 50 people from the lower area of the town.
According to 112, the eviction was communicated at night to the Emergency Coordination Center by the town council of the Los Serranos region, in the middle Turia basin. “The status of the Buseo reservoir dam is being monitored and remains in Situation 2,” the emergency services have also reported. The Buseo reservoir is located in the interior of the province of Valencia, 50 kilometers from the capital and near the town of Chera.
Sot de Chera mourns the death of a 4-year-old boy
Precisely, the small Valencian municipality of Sot de Chera, with about 300 inhabitants, mourns the death of a 4-year-old child due to the collapse of a building next to the Sot river due to DANA. The father is also missing, as the town’s mayor, Tomás Cervera, explained to EFE.
Apparently, the boy was trying to see what the situation was from a window when a flood of water arrived and part of the structure of the house collapsed and fell into the water, after which the property collapsed and buried the father, the mayor has indicated. .
The town experienced two large floods of water on Tuesday night, due to torrential rains and the overflow of the nearby Busot reservoir dam.
The dam was neglected for many years and has structural deficiencies
Thomas Cervera
— Mayor of Sot de Chera
The mayor has admitted that one of the concerns they have at this moment is the state of the Buseo reservoir, located 7 kilometers upstream from the municipality, an infrastructure that “was neglected for many years and has structural deficiencies.”
He has also stated that the Generalitat Emergencies have guaranteed them that the dam is not going to collapse and they are monitoring it day and night.
“The town as we knew it does not exist”
Cervera explained that they are “a town that lives off tourism and our axis is the Sot river, a tributary of the Turia river, with infrastructure that has disappeared, from an old mill to a lot of houses and vehicles.” “The town as we knew it does not exist,” lamented the mayor, who recognizes that they are going to have to “reinvent themselves as a town.”
According to data from the Valencian Meteorological Association (Avamet), the maximum rainfall records in the last hours of the night have been 55.4 liters per square meter in Miramar; Olive, 53.4; Gandia, 45.7 and Font d’En Carrós, 36.6, all in the province of València.
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