EMERGENCIES of the Valencian generality informed by email and fax to 52 town halls since midday of the “hydrological alert” of October 29, which resulted in a sudden flood which cost more than 200 dead in Valencia. He did this to transfer to the municipalities the information provided by the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar (CHJ).
This is indicated in the emergency dispatch records to which EL ESPAÑOL has had access. The first special summons was sent at 12:15 p.m. to the municipalities of the Magro River. He recommended “not approaching the banks of rivers and ravines likely to be active” after the information received by the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar regarding the increase in river flow.
The host municipalities were Albalat de la Ribera, Alborache, L’Alcúdia, Alfarp, Algemesí, Buñol, Camporrobles, Carlet, Catadau, Caudete de las Fuentes, Corbera, Cullera, Favara, Fortaleny, Fuenterrobles, Guadassuar, Llaurí, Llombai, Macastre, Montserrat, Montroy, Polinyà del Xúquer, Real, Requena, Riola, Siete Aguas, Sinarcas, Sueca, Tavernes de la Valldigna, Turís, Utiel, Yátova and Benicull del Xúquer.
Right next to it, at 12:25 p.m. another mass mailing was made. In this case with the hydrological alert in the municipalities of the Poyo ravine. This boulevard, generally dry, was the one that suffered the great overflow and caused the majority of deaths due to the terrible DANA from which the province of Valencia suffered.
At that time, the flow of the ravine was absorbed by it. It was 264 cubic meters per second, as the CHJ found. The notice once again encouraged municipalities to “not approach the banks of rivers and ravines likely to be active.”
Emergencies, on this occasion, sent him to Alaquàs, Albal, Aldaia, Alfafar, Benetússer, Catarroja, Quart de Poblet, Cheste, Xirivella, Chiva, Godelleta, Loriguilla, Llocnou de la Corona, Massanassa, Paiporta, Picanya, Riba -roja, Sedavi and Torrent. The vast majority of these municipalities were submerged by water the same afternoon.
In the afternoon, before the serious overflow, the Generalitat continued to inform the town halls. But in this case only in municipalities bathed by the Magro and Júcar rivers.
According to the documentation consulted, attached, he sent them repeated messages at 5:27 p.m., 6:02 p.m. and 6:13 p.m., with the same message. The big fear was the failure of the Forata dam, which never happened. The dispatch, however, warned of possible “widespread overflows in areas close to the river” and recommended “not to approach the banks”.
Why were there no mass expeditions to the Poyo Ravine communities the same afternoon? The Generalitat Valenciana apologizes for this The CHJ stopped reporting the galloping growth in the flow of the ravine.
15 omissions
In fact, like revealed EL ESPAÑOL, the CHJ 15 times he omitted the written emergency alert that his protocol requires during the key hour and a half of the flooding of the Poyo ravine.
CHJ itself, in its November 5 email statement, acknowledged that He did not report by email what was happening in the fateful Poyo Ravine since 3:50 p.m., when he reported the flow had fallen to 28.7 cubic meters per second.
He only resumed communication via this channel at 6:43 p.m., when it was already 1,686. When this final warning came, the force of the water was already such that just twelve minutes later it destroyed the measuring systems.
The massive emails sent since the morning of October 29 prove the contact of the Generalitat with the municipalities, beyond the telephone calls that the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazonhe claims to have contacted the mayors directly. These calls have been questioned by the opposition.
