Castilla-La Mancha approves 19 million for emergency DANA works outside the Letur and Mira plans

The Minister of Public Works, Nacho Hernando, explained in a press conference that 7.5 million will be used to repair roads or build new bridges directly “washed away by floods”. For example, the Landete bridge on the CM-215 will cost 2.8 million and the reconstruction of the bridge over the Piedra River, in Embid, just under 900,000 euros.

Likewise, interventions will be carried out at numerous points in the five provinces of the regional road network, where damage of varying degrees has been noted, such as sloping slopes, lack of drainage or ditches filled with sediment.

The water also caused damage to the wastewater treatment of ten municipalities: Ruidera, Mira, Letur, Aliaguilla, Las Rinconadas, La Olmeda, Talayuelas, Henarejos, Los Huertos and Fuentealbilla. The damage is still being assessed, the advisor explained.

Likewise, interventions will be carried out on dams, forest trails, control bases or autonomous surveillance posts. The investment in the natural environment will be two million in the province of Albacete, 3.6 million in Guadalajara and 4.3 million in Cuenca.

It should be noted that these investments will be outside the plans of Letur and Mira, the two municipalities most affected by the floods and on which there will be more details next week.

Hernando also stressed that it is only a matter of days before meetings are organized with the hydrographic confederations, so that they can “give their all” in the tasks of cleaning the river beds and in projects which prevent further tragedies.

More than 200 families served in Letur and Mira

On the other hand, the Junta de Castilla-La Mancha helped 222 families and more than 100 requests for assistance were registered in the offices deployed in Letur, Mira and Villel de Mesa to speed up procedures.

Hernando said office workers “gave of themselves from an emotional standpoint.” “These families are not files, but they have first and last names, in a very painful, very difficult personal context. It was hard enough that they also had to deal with a mountain of paperwork,” he added.

In Letur there are 14 properties “that must be demolished no matter what”15 others that are being examined for irreparable structural damage and 56 others without damage. While, In Mira there are eleven properties declared in ruinsAnother 20 are still being analyzed in case they need to be demolished and 150 more than without structural damage.