Los Llanos de Aridane (La Palma) (EFE) La Bombilla will go to the creation of a gas control center for these two coastal nuclei.
As Izquierdo explained, in these neighborhoods where the presence of gases of volcanic origin has been maintained since the eruption ended 16 months ago, “there are different fronts open, there are forced ventilation projects to reduce CO2 levels, mapping with sensors, and now this project to have surveillance at a human level”.
The Commissioner has described this control center as a place where “one or two permanent people will work, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to monitor any alarm that arises through the meters that have been distributed throughout the affected neighborhoods.
This center will be located in the vicinity of the nuclei and will maintain continuous surveillance of the sensor values so that “if the danger threshold is crossed, the mechanisms that raise the alarm are activated through messages on the mobile application, announcements of public address system or calls to firefighters and Civil Guard ”, he has detailed.
Izquierdo has assured that the control center “will be maintained in the future”, with the aim of “providing security to the neighbors when, hopefully soon, it will be possible to live in those areas again, and it will be done in a situation of comfort and security”.
“We need a series of years where we can sleep peacefully, especially because the tides affect and there are gas peaks at night, so this control center will work 24 hours to monitor the gases at all times,” said the Commissioner. .
Héctor Izquierdo has stated that “this control center will be maintained for a period of time until the scientists from the National Geographic Institute who work there assure us that it makes no sense to continue monitoring”, also pointing out that “the costs will be borne by the State”. EFE