The Valencian Government of Carlos Mazon asked the executive to Pedro Sanchez that undertake the cleaning of canals, rivers and boulevards today exceeded during DANA, but did not obtain results. The first request dates from September 2023. And the second, in July 2024.. That is to say since the same time when Mazón assumed the presidency of the Generalitat.
It turns out that this Sunday, the Valencian Minister of Agriculture Miguel Barrachina revealed that: “The entrainment and clogging of reeds and debris carried by the current made it difficult for water to pass through various points of the canals, particularly on bridges, which contributed to overflowing.”
In September 2023The PP urged the Sánchez government to clean the riverbeds of the Valencian Community given the risk of heavy rains that already existed at the time, as OKDIARIO published at the time.
In those days, Maria Gomezdeputy of the Valencian Cortes and mayor of Almoradí, one of the municipalities devastated by the 2019 DANA in the Alicante region of Vega Baja, has already warned that “We do not want to relive episodes like those that occurred with the latest torrential rains caused by different DANAS“.
María Gómez then also remembered that The cleaning, maintenance and monitoring of the canals “are the exclusive responsibility of the Spanish government.” through the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar (CHJ) and the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura (CHS)”, organizations that depend on the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, led by the socialist Teresa Ribera.
María Gómez then also warned that: “We are exposed to the perfect stormwith the onset of autumn, “very high temperature sea water” and river beds “are at serious risk of collapsing due to the neglect they suffer.”
Once again, in July 2024, the popular They presented a new initiative to demand the cleaning of rivers, canals and boulevards, which was implemented at the Environment Commission with the sole support of Vox. While the PSOE and Compromís voted against.
Concretely, this last resolution, to which OKDIARIO had access, was approved by the Environment Commission of the Valencian Courts on July 15. The approved text specifies that “the Cortes urge the Consell to urge, in turn, the Spanish Government to carry out the cleaning and urgent maintenance of the canals, rivers and boulevards of the Valencian Community, through the Hydrographic Confederation of the Segura (CHS), the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation (CHJ) and the Ebro Hydrographic Confederation (CHE).
The PP itself amended to include the CHE in this initiative, because the rivers belonging to this Confederation cross the province of Castellón, in the Valencian Community, and the people wanted the government to also clean the rivers, at least in these Valencian sections. . its canals, rivers and boulevards to avoid dangers.
It’s more. Before these two times, in September 2022, Carlos Mazón himself, then president of the Provincial Council of Alicante, had already demanded that Sánchez urgently clean the bed of the Segura river, in the Vega Baja region, in the face of the risk imminent from DANA.
This Sunday, the current Minister of Agriculture of the Valencian Government, Miguel Barrachina, once again pointed the finger at the executive of Pedro Sánchez for the dirt on canals, rivers and boulevards. Barrachina ruled that “the prohibitionism of the CHJ, dependent on the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge of Teresa Ribera, prevents municipalities from carrying out cleaning actions in their canals and ravines, which would minimize the risk of flooding.”
