The residents of the Airport neighborhood, in the district of Barajas, are already used to walking between mud every time the sky of the capital roars. «This time it has not been the worst of all, but sometimes the water reaches 40 … Centimeters high, the portals flood and you have to throw all the furniture, ”says a group of retirees in the neighborhood. Yesterday at noon there was still emergency vehicles and areas cordoned off by the police, although this time it seems that Martinho has had mercy with them. They remember worse floods, such as 2015, for example, which caused innumerable problems in the sea sea zone, the M-40, the English Court of the Campo de las Naciones, the Alameda de Osuna, the Airport neighborhood and the A-2; They even had to cut the highways. The problem, they admit, is recurring: in recent years they have been repeated cyclically in 2017, 2019, 2023 …
Pablo Prado, who runs the only hairdresser in this neighborhood, says that they are already seeing how the “shit” of the sewers comes out. «We do not know where the architects will have studied the race, it cannot be that Little that it rains, balsas are formed On the sidewalks. What costs them with a little more slope?
The underlying problem, according to reports from the Isabel II channel, is that the bars collector capacity is insufficient during storm episodes. “They have built many buildings and the sewerage does not supply,” says Jesús González, spokesman for the Airport Association, who believe there is a bad urban planning.
“If when I was small, the water collector already gave problems, I imagine now with climate change,” says Prado visibly, who yesterday prepared his hairdresser to avoid damage, as has happened on many other occasions, in which the water has even reached their knees.
That same feeling of tiredness is shared by Juliana de Pablo, a neighbor of Garganchón Street, who could show the traces of the Thursday’s storm at dawn: mud traces on the stairs and water who has entered the elevator has caused floods in his basement. “They always promise us that they will solve the problem but never do anything,” he says.
The Isabel II channel project includes, in addition to a new sewerage network, a series of storm tanks
The mayor himself, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, recognized yesterday that “it cannot be that every time it rains that area is flooded” and said that he hopes to “not disappoint again” to the neighbors who have long waiting for the solution. From the Consistory, he added, they have been working on a long -awaited solution for some time: the creation of a new collector in the area.
A key step
After years blocked by the bureaucracy, this infrastructure is now closer than ever to be a reality thanks to an agreement signed yesterday by the Madrid City Council and demarcation of roads of the State by which the Ministry of Transportation and Sustainable Mobility yields to the Consistory the section of The collecting route of the A-2 between kilometric points 0+000 and 3+773, its connections with the Avenida de la Hispanidad and the Central Avenue and a section of Avenida de la Hispanidad (from its intersection with Riaño Street to overpass the trace of the connection gallery with the spillway of the future projected collector).
The new municipal ownership of these infrastructure, explain sources from the area of works and equipment, was “the only possible way” for the Isabel II channel to address the works of the projected collector. Thus, as of today, the Madrid City Council assumes the conservation, maintenance and exploitation of the transferred road and all the facilities and infrastructure inherent to it: signage, beacon, sidewalk, defenses, railings, fonorreductor screens, lighting, semaforization, drainage network, communications or services and arches for the traffic control equipment, among others.
The storm ratros in the airport neighborhood
Tania Sieira
For its part, the General Directorate of Roads of the Ministry of Transportation and Sustainable Mobility undertakes to perform within a period Maximum of six months actions in public lighting (Review of high voltage elements, facilities inspection and contribution of all the commissioning documentation and inspection certificate of the facilities, as well as the documentation of the change of ownership), works in the upper pass Bergantin street roundabout and A-2.
In parallel, while from the Ministry of Óscar Puente they unlocked this into the problem, at the municipal level the PSOE of Reyes Maroto presented a proposition for the next plenary, which will be held on October 25, in which they urged the Isabel II channel to present in three months a definitive and viable project for the construction of the new collector, realilar a flood simulation with warning with the population Airport and the Alameda de Osuna and a specific zoning in the notice system to the ES-Alert population, among others.
Isabel II channel sources explain to ABC that, with the supervision of the Madrid City Council (head of the sewer network) they have studied all this system of bars to raise a proposal that contemplates, “in addition to the collector project, which has already been written, a series of storm tanks that launch the discharge, whose previous studies is carrying out channel.” However, they still dare to date this plan: “Channel will tender and execute the works when you have the relevant authorizations and permits.”
Surprise among the neighbors
The neighbors have been surprised because the agreement is signed just today-“the councilor of the district, Juan Peña, already told us on February 17 that the collecting route of the A-2 was municipal,” González points out-but celebrate the “good” news, because it is another step to build the long-awaited collector. “Nevertheless, It is still necessary to modify the collector project Because the previous one had the point of relief in the channel of the Race of bars and the Hydrographic Confederation of the Tagus did not authorize it because the minimum flow allowed by law would be exceeded, so it is pending modification and a new request for “municipal” authorization, he adds. I hope Martinho is not the nth flood, but the penultimate.
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