The Emergency Coordination Center (CCE) of the Generalitat Valenciana monitors the state of the Buseo reservoir dam, located in the municipality of Chera (València), and reports that it remains in scenario 2, with stable levels , as it appears to begin to descend.
According to the DANA night report, the Castelló Consortium firefighters did not have to carry out rain-related services while those of València continued to carry out numerous aid services, especially for the elderly.
Thursday evening, the Town Hall of the Valencian municipality of Sot de Chera informed the CCE of the preventive expulsion of 50 people from the lower area of the city.
According to 112, the eviction was communicated during the night to the Emergency Coordination Center by the municipality of the Los Serranos region, in the middle Turia basin. “The condition of the Buseo reservoir dam is monitored and remains in situation 2,” emergency services also indicated. The Buseo reservoir is located inside the province of Valencia, 50 kilometers from the capital and close to the town of Chera.
Sot de Chera mourns the death of a 4-year-old boy
Precisely, the small Valencian municipality of Sot de Chera, with around 300 inhabitants, mourns the death of a 4-year-old child following the collapse of a building next to the Sot river due to DANA. The father is also missing, as the city’s mayor, Tomás Cervera, explained to EFE.
Apparently, the child was trying to see the situation from a window when a flood of water arrived and part of the house structure collapsed and fell into the water, after which the property s collapsed and buried the father, said the mayor. .
The city experienced two major floods on Tuesday evening, due to torrential rains and the overflowing of the nearby Busot reservoir dam.
The dam has been neglected for many years and has structural deficiencies
Tom Cervera
— Mayor of Sot de Chera
The mayor admitted that one of his concerns at the moment is the state of the Buseo reservoir, located 7 kilometers upstream from the municipality, an infrastructure that “has been neglected for many years and has structural deficiencies” .
He also said that the Generalitat Emergencies assured them that the dam would not collapse and that they were monitoring it day and night.
“The city as we knew it does not exist”
Cervera explained that it is “a town that lives from tourism and our axis is the Sot river, a tributary of the Turia river, with infrastructure that has disappeared, from an old mill to many houses and vehicles.” “The city as we knew it does not exist,” laments the mayor, who recognizes that we will have to “reinvent ourselves as a city.”
According to data from the Valencian Meteorological Association (Avamet), the maximum precipitation recorded in the last hours of the night was 55.4 liters per square meter in Miramar; Olivier, 53.4; Gandia, 45.7 and Font d’En Carrós, 36.6, all in the province of València.
