The boulevard that descends from El Mirador floods the urbanization, which still has unpaved streets
The residents of the Los Pozuelos neighborhood in Santiago de la Ribera know more about the destructive power of water than they would like. A tractor had to shovel more than one family to rescue them from the rise in the mud level in the streets of this urbanization, to which the downspouts of El Mirador end up, after passing by the sides of the Dos Seas. “It’s almost a boulevard,” says a resident.
They have never seen a remedy for the massive arrival of water in the direction of their homes, despite claiming it for years, but now fears are increasing when they verify the plans to build a row of houses right where Fuenlabrada street ends, converted into a raft with every storm. “And you know what happens to a reservoir when you raise the gates,” warns another resident.
The president of the Neighborhood Association of Los Pozuelos, Anna Eczbieta Wiktorowska, has raised the problem several times with the San Javier City Council to request that they build a rainwater collection system and that they give continuity to Fuenlabrada street, so as not to pocket the water at the same point. They no longer want to see themselves in the extreme of having to climb on the roof of the house when the waters rise. “The City Council has allowed to build where it shouldn’t have and now we have these consequences,” says a neighbor.
On the horizontal plot that, from Isla Fernando Poo street, closes Fuenlabrada street, the urbanizable lots can already be seen. “As soon as they raise the fences of these future homes, this will become a glass,” lament the neighbors. It will not only harm those who already live in the area, but also the new owners of this urbanization of more than 400 houses.
The Neighborhood Association also hopes that the interior streets will be organized and paved. They also request the development of the green zone between Puerta de Hierro, Galapagos Islands, Alborán Island and Alcobendas streets.
rodents and insects
“When it rains, it becomes a muddy mess and weeds grow, so we have rodents and insects for weeks afterward,” neighbors complain. With the new urban developments, they hope that a park with sports equipment and vegetation will also be built in this environment close to the Faculty of Sports Sciences.
To questions from THE TRUTH, the Councilor for Public Services, María Dolores Ruiz, assures that the City Council has requested European funds to channel rainwater in the Campomar Special Interior Reform Plan, within a project valued at four million euros. “We hope to have a response soon and create a system of collectors to collect rainwater, which would end up in the green area of Peri de Campomar, where a sustainable urban drainage system with a sports and play area is planned, equipped with filtering pavement” she points out.
The municipal project plans to create filter strips combined with vegetation and perforated pipes along the streets of Islas Cíes, Isla de Alborán and Plaza del Jarama. The flow that cannot be absorbed will be channeled through the stormwater collector to the storm tank. The demolition of Santa Rita street and its reconstruction with a lower level, which favors the circulation of water, is planned. In the neighborhoods of Campomar and Los Pozuelos there are rain gardens projected, which will capture rainwater. They will be designed to absorb the flow that circulates on the surface, which will be stored in tanks as a cistern for the irrigation of the Santiago de la Ribera football field, says the councilor.
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