Finally, heavy machinery was able to enter the old town of Letur this Saturday to clean the area most affected by the flooding due to a DANA last Tuesday. In addition, searches continue to find the five residents who disappeared in this town of Albacete: Juan, Manolo, Jonathan, Mónica and Antonia. In total, around two hundred people participate in all these tasks in a town declared a Historic-Artistic Site since 1983, with nearly a thousand inhabitants.
On the other hand, the Commonwealth of Canales del Taibilla (MCT), dependent on the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (Miteco), has deployed an operation to supply drinking water to the Castilian-Manchego municipality.
The MCT has a water treatment plant in this town and one of its canals also passes there. However, Letur is not attached to the organization and is supplied with water by a set of springs and fountains, according to the Government Delegation of Castile-La Mancha.
After the “tsuami”, as the neighbors called it, the MCT contacted the mayor, Sergio Marín, on Tuesday to make available the Drinking Water Treatment Plant (ETAP), as well as any services they needed. In the early hours of Wednesday, they requested help from the agency to supply them with drinking water, as the flood had destroyed all the hydraulic system they had for collection and distribution.
Immediately, according to the Government Delegation in the region, the MCT mobilized technical and operational teams to transport water from its canal to the reservoirs, and launched a temporary emergency installation. It is a pumping system, powered by generators, which transports water from community infrastructures to municipal infrastructures. In about 12 hours, water was supplied, so Letur now has this essential service.
