The actions of the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation, dependent on the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Teresa Ribera, raise some doubts if we look back. ABC answers some jurisdictional and temporal questions on that Tuesday, October 29. Some remain unanswered.
In a matter of an hour and a half, the flow of the ravine went from 200 cubic meters per second to more than 2,000. It is normal that such an increase would have been detected, since even a minor increase in the morning was detected and formally reported in writing.
-The CHJ doesn’t see it until 6:43 p.m. in the alert email? Why is only an email notified about the extraordinary flood?? This question remains unanswered. Such a large increase in flow, unprecedented since the ravine was monitored, is only notified with an email. There was no call from anyone to the Emergency Department even though it was easy to predict disaster in a canal that, starting from Paiporta, only supports 800 cubic meters per second.
–What extraordinary resources did the CHJ mobilize?
The president of the CHJ has not explained how his organization prepared for an episode of rain that was expected to be extreme. Were there reinforcement shifts? How many people were in charge of the Automatic Hydrological Information System? What protocol did the Hydrographic Confederation follow? Its parameters are not clear. On the one hand, it says that its internal protocol requires it to report flows greater than 150m3/s, but on the other hand, it says that it was not obliged to report the Poyo ravine.
-Why didn’t the ministry intervene sooner with the Forata dam?
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Hugo Morán, did not call the Generalitat until 8 p.m. to talk about the risk of the Forata dam breaking. But as of 6 p.m. the dam was at level 2 of danger, with this risk of collapse already active.
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