The Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar, the body responsible for measuring and communicating to the competent authorities the information and evolution of flows in the area, and which played a key role in the DANA forecasts which devastated part of the Community Valencia, made known the breakdowns that some of its sensors which measured the situation caused by this disaster suffered breakdowns.
Concretely, even if certain media had warned a few hours earlier flood data in the Poyo ravine they had disappeared on the establishment’s websiteshe made it clear that the data is not available at the moment because a flood They damaged the sensors that are used to measure water flows (gauges) in the canals in real time.
These instruments are anchored on infrastructure, such as bridges or breakwaters, some of which have disappeared or been seriously damaged. “Right away we replace it“, emphasized the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar to laSexta.com, but wanted to emphasize that work takes timebecause “this requires restarting the system and reloading the data again”.
Likewise, they warned that “information” will continue to be “unavailable for a few hours, as long as the system is renewed”. “We are working as efficiently as possible to make the data accessible to everyone again,” they stressed. THE Valencian generality had denounced before the Confederation to “delete” the data of the flow of your website when the situation in this area worsened.
In the same spirit, Mazón’s team had also reported to the Confederation for lack of information during the DANA which affected the region. According to the government of Carlos Mazón, the CHJ delayed until 7 p.m. on the afternoon of October 29 to communicate the excessive growth of the flow in the Poyo Ravine. Faced with such accusations, the organization stressed that at all times kept the authorities informed of civil protection.
CHJ data in the Poyo ravine
As laSexta.com learned, the data of the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar in the Poyo Ravine stay inactive until 11:00 a.m. on the morning of October 29, when the sensor begins to register the increase in flow 0.295 cubic meters per second. Throughout the day, the sensor records different data.
He last recording at 6:55 p.m., which would coincide with the moment when the flood carries away the sensor, when the flow takes 2,282 cubic meters per second. From this moment on, the sensor becomes unusable without recording any more data to dateas explained by the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar.
