The government of Carlos Mazon He continues to defend his leadership in the face of the disaster caused by DANA. Yesterday the Generalitat Valenciana accused the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar (CHJ) for not having informed its emergency technicians that the Poyo Ravine“point zero” of DANA, multiplied its flow by 100 in a little over two hours on the afternoon of the fateful October 29. A information that has directly disappeared from the web of this state agency dependent on the Ministry of Ecological Transition.
According to the Generalitat, the state agency ‘deleted’ ‘key data’ from its website of the Poyo ravine disaster, through which Nearly 2,000 cubic meters per second were circulating at 7 p.m.17 minutes after the CHJ sent an email warning of a very considerable increase in flow, “particularly dangerous”.
Between this communication and the previous one, at 4:13 p.m., during which the water volume decreased, there was no notification from the Ministry’s technicians to the regional government.
The state agency says This data is not available due to a failure of the measuring devices. flows in the Poyo ravine due to last Tuesday’s flooding. An argument that does not convince Mazón’s government because, despite this circumstance, “data prior to the time when said rupture occurs could and should be available for observation and analysis.”
In addition, these data were available until last Sunday, but neither Monday nor today it is possible to consult them.
This “disappearance” of data questions the Valencian government If what the CHJ is looking for is that there is no longer any evidence that at 6 p.m., this flow was at a colossal level and that there was an extreme and imminent risk of flooding, when 1,725.89 cubic meters per second were already recorded. To get an idea of the scale, this volume would be equivalent to 53 times the flow of the Tajo-Segura, or 4 times the flow of the Ebro.
For the Mazon executive, it is not understandable that the State agency dependent on the Ministry of Ecological Transition It took up to 43 minutes to send an email when it could have already alerted at 6 p.m. the extreme risk involved in exceeding 1,700 m3; per second.
Let us also remember that the president of the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar, Miguel Polo, was present at the Cecopi union, which had started at 5 p.m., and did not warn at any time of the extreme risk posed by the data communicated at 6:43 p.m.
