After the dredging work is completed on the directional dam at kilometer 14, the new areas will be intervened with islets in the Magdalena Rivernear the Port Zone of Barranquilla (ZPB).
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This was announced this Monday by the director of Cormagdalena, Pedro Pablo Jurado, after the port and economic unions of the city denounced the appearance of sandbanks in a boat turning area, at the head of the Regional Port Society of Barranquilla ( SPRB).
The dredger will go between kilometer 17 and kilometer 21 to meet all the needs to guarantee nautical safety
According to what they considered, headed by the president of Asoportuaria, Clemente Fajardo, this is a consequence of the lack of “prevention and maintenance” to the navigable channel, which corresponds to the authority.
Due to the above, Jurado responded in the last hours, assuring that the institution carried out a monitoring of the extension of Rondón Island, which has a greater dimension under the Pumarejo bridge.
“The dredger will go between kilometer 17 and kilometer 21 to meet all the needs to guarantee nautical safety,” said the official.
The director of Cormagdalena added that the sandbar closest to the design of the navigable channel has a distance of 72 meterswhile the other is separated by more than 200 meters.
“Cormagdalena monitored Rondón Island, checking that there is no affectation in terms of navigation due to the sedimentological formations that outcrop,” said Jurado.
Analysis of the bathymetries conducted by Cormagdalena.
Cormagdalena Press
Operating draft is at 9.4 meters
In that sense, the entity recalled that it is coming from a high rainy season. In December 2021, it registered more than 12,600 cubic meters per second and today it accounts for less than half of that flow.
He also added that the dredger is working inside the access channel to guarantee navigation. In January this year, the cargo grew by 16 percent compared to the same period last year, according to official data.
“Ratifying that there are navigation conditions and that there is a great moment of economic reactivation. The operational draft in the ZPB is up to 9.4 meters deep”, concluded Jurado.
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The story of ‘Lechuga Island’
The island began to be used as a tourist place.
Taken from social media
These sandbanks, in what Cormagdalena defined as the extension of Rondón Island, have given everything. Since the port workers’ complaint became known, citizens arrived in small boats to ‘colonize’ the areas.
So much so that they called it ‘Isla Lechuga’, where they descended from Saturday to share with friends, drinking beers, as if it were a beach or any other tourist attraction in Barranquilla.
Beyond the Caribbean humor, Asoportuaria again made a call this Monday to the corresponding organizations to intervene in the area in time and guarantee the safety of the vessels.
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