Inhabitants of the Rabón areain the jurisdiction of the municipality of Guaranda, in La Mojana expressed their concern, because they consider that the work being carried out in the cat face break will not be effective by the end of February, as announced by the National Risk Management Unit, responsible of the mitigation works in this region, between the departments of Bolívar and Sucre.
This has been stated by leaders, merchants, ranchers, rice farmers, farmers in general, who arrived at the scene of the emergency with the face of a cat and returned alarmed because They assure that the works do not advance.
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One of them in Darinel Regino, owner of the ‘El Tamarindo’ farm, located in the jurisdiction of the New Hope corregimiento.
“Since September we have been flooded in La Mojana and in this case I make special mention of the Rabón area. We made a visual inspection of the works that are being carried out and we leave very disappointed, scared, because the works that are being carried out do not guarantee that this year we will not be flooded, ”he said.
The President of the Republic, Iván Duque, promised at the beginning of October 2021 that the works to solve the floods in the La Mojana subregion, in four departments, will be carried out in two phases, one with immediate execution works and the second with the construction of the Directional Breakwater with hydraulic gates.
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The president assured that they will invest 2.5 billion pesos to solve this historical problem that each winter season leaves thousands of victims, millionaire losses, and a rich region considered a pantry, plunged today into poverty. The resources to intervene in La Mojana are backed by a Conpes public policy document as a national strategic project.
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They ask staff who know the local hydraulics
Regino explained that they are working and that the people designated for the works are interested in carrying them out and officials from the National Risk Management Unit are permanently present at the site and do their best to cover up the break. cat face.
“The inspection we have done, the interviews with the farmers in the area, who know the dynamics of the Cauca River, tell us that very soon it will grow and we will see the containment bags that they are placing in the region of The Sierpe”, he affirmed.
They made a new call to the central government to take urgent letters. They request that they pay more attention to the cat’s face and that the work be carried out by qualified personnel who know the local hydraulics.
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“Send machinery of the quality and quantity necessary to cover the rupture caused by the river. It’s not that they don’t want to do it, but the seriousness and magnitude of the problem is greater than the capacity of the people who are working”, he expressed.
Likewise, he specified that what is recorded in the region is a race against time and the inhabitants of the area pray for the Cauca River to go down.
In the midst of last year’s tragedy, the Government maintained that rapid interventions must be made in the 10 critical points in each of the municipalities, but a structural solution is also required that must be executed in four phases over a six-year period. .
The river rose and carried away the containment bags that had been placed
… I have already lost 35 hectares of rice that were ready for fumigation, I have also lost the animals, including poultry, pigs and cattle, and I do not want history to repeat itself”
Another of the growers who lives in the Nueva Esperanza corregimiento asks for the help of the national government because of the critical state they are in when they lose everything.
“We do not see results from the work they are doing, I have already lost 35 hectares of rice that were ready for fumigation, I also lost the animals, including poultry, pigs and cattle, and I do not want history to repeat itself,” he said.
He also stated that they do not see safety in the work being carried out, because recently the river rose and took away the containment bags that had been placed.
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The growers of the Mojana sub-region have stated that now they do not know what to do, because the land can no longer be sown, much less have animals.
The communities assure that the situation is the same between the farmers of La Mojana and El San Jorge, because some lost more and others less hectares cultivated with rice and pancoger.
Risk Management promises that on February 28 there will be a definitive closure
…we continue to maintain, according to information from contractors and auditors, the closure for the end of February of the current year
The national director of the National Risk Management Unit, Eduardo José González, said after an inspection visit to the works, that on February 28 they will definitely cover the cat face hole.
“We have made enormous progress on all fronts and on the piles that are in the middle and we continue to maintain, according to information from contractors and inspectors, the closure for the end of February of the current year,” he said.
The official explained that they received additional proposals to increase working hours, with the operation of more machinery, in a channel that faced cat face.
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“Community, delegates, representatives, mayors, representatives of the Government, ranchers, unions and the National Government with the National Risk Management Unit are all working together,” González stressed, after a meeting in the Unified Command Plan -PMU -.
The day that said Conpes document was signed for the mitigation works in La Mojana, Duque assured: “Here the solution, the resources, the Conpes document are established and the idea is to start the works as of January 2022, with a key, the 10 interventions that are immediate are consistent with the structural solution”.
The first work to prevent Mojana from flooding, according to President Duque, must be carried out at the point known as ‘Cara de Gato’, between San Jacinto del Cauca and Guaranda, an area today in emergency again due to threats of flooding in the entire region.
Francis Xavier Barrios
Special for WEATHER
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