have particularly affected the peasants working in the floriculture and dairy sectors.
The center of the country, as predicted a year ago, is one of the areas most affected by the harshness of the second winter of the La Nina phenomenon. In Ontario, 53 municipalities were flooded, leaving a toll of more than 900 families homeless. Mosquera, Soacha, Cota, Tocaima, Apulo, Girardot, Puerto Salgar, Nemocón Cogua and municipalities have been affected in recent months.
The situation escalated in the past week, especially in Mosquera, where the rains have not stopped falling. In this county, the flooding rivers Bogota Bojacá Subachoque and have caused losses of more than 80 billion dollars and over 3,000 hectares of productive land in the mud. Situation in which the mayor of Mosquera, Álvaro Rincón, launched an appeal for help to the government and the community to restore the area.
The Mayor noted that Rio Porvenir neighborhood, planned and Savannah there are at least 55 affected families, after the water level reached 30 centimeters in height, after heavy rains in recent days. He clarified that the emergency was not lived by the overflow Bogotá River, as speculated in the people, but because the pumps located in these neighborhoods did not have the capacity to evacuate the amount of water that fell.
local emergency committee evaluates the possibility of more pumps to the area, to remove stagnant water faster and have greater capacity to respond to the possibility of heavy rains. Of the 55 affected families, 25 agreed to be transferred to a temporary shelter with the help of a local squad took the maximum amount of items to the shelter. The other 20 refused to leave their farms for fear of appliances that stay indoors. In the area, trails San Francisco, San Jose and El Playon have lived with intense force of the rains and rising river levels, which have particularly affected the peasants working in the floriculture and dairy sectors.
Although the situation is being controlled by local authorities, the governor of Cundinamarca, Andrés González Díaz called for special vigilance on the Bogotá river flow in its lower basin, medium and high, for the apparent increase level in recent days.
"The level of the Bogotá river has begun to grow well, is on the edge of two inches jarillones in bridge vereda San Miguel. De manera que llamamos a una vigilancia cuidadosa, prudente, sobre todo a las riberas del río Bogotá en su cuenca media, tanto en Cundinamarca como en Bogotá", explicó el mandatario.
González señaló que ya se han tomado algunas medidas de contingencia para disminuir el riesgo, pero que se requiere mantener monitoreo permanente tanto en la Sabana como en la cuenca baja.
"Debemos estar atentos y vigilantes, de nuestra parte se están tomando las medidas para reforzar los jarillones y para desaguar parte del río en el sector El Charquito, lo que va a aliviar la cuenca media, pero va a generar más agua en la cuenca baja".
En este sentido, el Gobernador institutions emphasized that prevention and relief must take coordinated and permanent. "The important thing is that we're carefully watching the clock and an overflow can occur that can alert and prevent the urban and even rural farmers to enable them to act in the best way," he said.
Bogotá, a separate point
The Capital District has been the epicenter of unusual emergencies on behalf of the rainy season. To date, 4 people died and 4,000 have been affected by the loss of their belongings, while 300 houses are to failure, according to the report of the Fund for Prevention and Care Emergency Bogota, FOPA.
neighborhoods that are currently most affected by flood risk are those from the West, located in the towns of Bosa, Engativá and Fontibon. While those at risk of slipping are located in the east: Usaquén Chapinero Usme, Ciudad Bolívar, El Codito, Santa Fe and San Cristobal.
On Thursday night the situation became critical in Fontibón where Cassandra neighborhood residents blocked the exit from the west of the city, to protest because they say the authorities have done nothing to prevent a possible overflow of the Bogota River. In the demonstration, Fopa moved to the area early on Friday to discuss what is being done on prevention and mitigation of risks to avoid a possible catastrophe.
For now been opened two temporary shelters in the Capital District to assist people who are at risk areas. One located in Bosa and another Rafael Uribe Uribe. The engineer Wilfredo Ospina, Fopa spokesman, explained that it is working with the community to know how to act in an emergency and where they can inform, but also to raise awareness of the importance of not filling garbage stormwater channels, to prevent flooding. Similarly, he explained that was created ongoing coordination program, which involved the Fopa, Civil Defense, the Highway Police and firefighters to respond to emergencies in an organized and get those that are announced to the line 123, related to flooding or landslides .
Source: Colprensa.
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