The Group of Underwater Activities Specialists (GEAS) of the Civil Guard sent to the Devesa-Albufera Service of the Valencia City Council an “urgent” request to reduce the level of the lake in order to facilitate the tasks of search for missing people following the flooding caused by DANA on October 29.
The Civil Guard diving team requested that the level of the Albufera be lowered by means of water extraction pumps and that, at the same time, the rudder doors remain closed. Valencia firefighters are also working to search for missing people, as reported by the town hall in a press release.
The Town Hall, in response to this request and in coordination with the GEAS, and with the “technical approval” of the Department of the Environment, is proceeding from this Monday to reduce the water of the Albufera to “ecological minimums“. Water extraction pumps operate in the Perellonet and Pujol golas.
The search for victims of the DANA continues this Monday, thirteen days after the arrival of this meteorological phenomenon which devastated different localities of Valencia, also at sea, from the north of this province to Déniain Alicante; and in the Poyo ravine.
This was stated by the general director of forest fire prevention of the Generalitat Valenciana, Rosa Tourisin statements to the media after today’s Cecopi meeting.
Tourís clarified that in the case of Albufera, the gradual drainage of the lake is maintained at the request of the Civil Guard, in order to “facilitate the work of the teams deployed in the area”. “We are working, as we have already reported, with the teams of bathymetry, drones and diving equipment», added the Director General of Forest Fire Prevention.
