The towns of Villar and Herrera de los Navarros, in the province of Zaragoza, experienced one of the most tense nights in decades. The two municipalities have seen their rivers overflow in recent hours due to heavy rains, causing moments of tension between their neighbors and multiple material damage to their infrastructure, even if without regretting injuries or bodily harm.
In Villar de los Navarros, The Cámaras River (a tributary of the Aguasvivas River, which flows into the Ebro) has risen five meters above its usual level.causing a great roar that invaded the municipality. “It’s been great. It was very scary. You know when it starts, but you don’t know how far it will go. There have been experiences elsewhere and we always think the worst», recalled its mayor, Míchel García.
In this town, the damage was concentrated on garages and warehouses, but it did not affect inhabited homes, explains the mayor, who does not remember anything similar “for 50 years”. “Now it’s calm, in a tense calm, but, thank God, there were no injuries. It was around 4 a.m., there was no light and the noise was hellish. We didn’t know how far it would go.“, explained Garcia.
A similar situation was experienced in Herrera de los Navarros, where the Herrera River destroyed two footbridges and collapsed the streets of the town. The level is already falling and the town hopes to return to calm if it does not continue to rain, after deposit up to 40 liters in just one houras detailed by its mayor, Enrique Felices.
This flood almost surprised them, while they were cleaning the streets and, suddenly, The river’s flow increased by “two or three meters” and “removed the two footbridges.” “One of the missing footbridges dated from the 70s and 80s, so they had not been removed for 40 years,” he said.
DANA also affected other municipalities. Around a hundred users of a Cadrete residence had to be evacuated as a precautionary measurewhile several sections of roads remain closed due to landslides. In addition, the evacuation of several houses in the municipality of Montalbán in Teruel was confirmed due to stability problems caused by water.
