Particularly, the personal reservoirs have collected 1,970,440 cubic meters, 8% of the full quantity, and the general public reservoirs 741,772 cubic meters, a 3% improve within the complete quantity. In complete, this represents a 39% improve over the beforehand obtainable quantity. And it continues to rain, stated the director of the Main Sector of the Company, Manuel Hidalgo, who added that it’s anticipated to finish up with round three million cubic meters of water obtainable for farmers. Sufficient to see us by means of till no less than 2024
That is very optimistic knowledge for those who take into consideration that the island was going by means of a severe episode of drought that had elevated the worth of water for cultivation for farmers, added to different issues they’re experiencing. With final weekend’s rains, “the land is not going to want irrigation for 2 or three weeks,” Morales stated.
Nevertheless, the storm has left important harm, particularly within the municipality of La Aldea, the place the president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, went to satisfy with the mayor Tomás Pérez on Tuesday afternoon. The Cabildo says that the municipality is being supported and highlights the coordination between establishments. The municipality continues to be with out water in lots of areas, because the desalination plant suffered harm. Hidalgo hopes that this Wednesday the water shall be changed in a big a part of the city and that in two or three days the mains supply pipe shall be repaired.
One lane of the GC-1 is predicted to reopen in three weeks time
One other essential price of this wet season has been that of roads. €4 million shall be used for 5 of them that shall be repaired utilizing the emergency procedures, akin to on the GC-1 (the place a retaining wall fell off at Las Huesas, in Telde inflicting hour lengthy tailbacks on Tuesday). One other eight roads are anticipated to be repaired over the approaching days with cleansing work underway.
The Minister of Public Works and Roads, Miguel Ángel del Pino, clarified that the work on the GC1 will last as long as 5 months, however shall be carried out at night time and that it may be used through the day.
Different roads the place work is being carried out are the GC-605, the GC-231, the GC-210, the GC-200, the GC-500, the GC-350 and the GC-810. These declared in an emergency state are: GC-1, GC-80, GC-550, GC-800 and GC-301.
Greater than 160 litres per sq. meter was registered. The president defined that within the space of the massive Cabildo dams (south/southwest), the common rainfall this weekend as a result of passage of Hermine was about 80 millimeters. Within the west (La Aldea), summit (Tejeda/Artenara/San Mateo), Las Palmas and Telde/Ingenio, greater than 120 mm have been recorded, particularly within the strip from west to east, from La Aldea to Telde.
The Minister of Public Works recalled that it was an intense weekend by way of landslides and highway closures, however he has insisted that the orography of Gran Canaria has meant that a big a part of the roads are subsequent to ravines, and due to this fact closures are considerably unavoidable in these conditions.
