Flood warning sirens for Alhaurín de la Torre. - Costa News Spain

Flooding advising alarms for Alhaurín de la Torre. – Costa Information Spain



Alhaurín de la Torre, in the Guardalhorce Valley, is to set up alarms in flood-prone locations to alert of prospective flooding.

The unique sharp system with digital alarms will certainly be put in the disaster area closest to the financial institutions of the Guadalhorce River that was impacted by the DANA floodings at the end of October 2024. This was introduced by the mayor, Joaquín Villanova, throughout a normal plenary session kept in council chambers.

The financing to do this, from a help plan worth EUR30,000, has actually originated from main federal government, and will certainly be set up in the Santa Amalia area where homes were swamped back in October.

The job will certainly offer to match the actions currently in position and mounted within the Community Emergency Situation Strategy that is released in case of a climate alert.

‘ We have actually done our research, which has actually offered for the damages of these last 2 DANA to be a lot less than in various other communities,’ claimed the mayor of Alhaurín de la Torre. He mentioned the advancement of a neighborhood flooding strategy that information the required actions to be established to avoid anymore substantial damages.

The mayor included that he directly had actually battled a lot to maintain the sludge cleansed after the October floodings, far from the metropolitan locations regarding feasible, provided the undesirable smells from the water drainage systems that blended in with the mud moved by floodwaters.

Tags: Alhaurin de la Torre, DANA.


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