Zaragoza, May 26 (EFE).- The municipal officials of Pomar de Cinca (Huesca) have been working since the early hours of this morning to assess the damage caused by the flooding of the Clamor ravine, a channel that crosses the town longitudinally and whose overflow flooded six houses in the town as well as some of the infrastructure of the population.
Among these, the house of culture, enabled days ago to house the polls for this Sunday’s elections, has been affected.
Elisa Sancho, mayoress of San Miguel de Cinca, a municipality to which the town of Pomar de Cinca is attached, has told EFE that what happened is an “announced disaster” due to the lack of cleaning work in the La Clamor ravine, which due to the rainy episode recorded yesterday, the height of the channel increased by 5 meters.
The municipal official explained that the overflowing water not only flooded six houses in the town, but also affected the municipal picnic area, the children’s playground and the aforementioned house of culture, as well as causing the collapse of the asphalt of a small section of a of the communication routes of the town.
He added that it has not been necessary to set up temporary accommodation for the affected families, since all of them have the possibility of settling in family homes while the damage caused by the flood is repaired.
The mayoress has said that in order to assess the damage caused by the overflow of the La Clamor ravine, the reports made by the firefighters have been used and that those affected will be supported when claiming insurance for payment of compensation for the damage suffered, although he has admitted not knowing if the policies taken out cover natural disasters.
The municipal official has attributed what happened to the lack of cleaning work in the Clamor ravine, a responsibility of the Ebro Hydrographic Confederation (CHE) that has not been fulfilled despite the continuous requests made from the municipality.
According to the mayor, “if the riverbed was clean this would not have happened, but as it is, with logs and a lot of vegetation it was difficult to avoid the damage it has caused in the town of Pomar de Cinca.”
In this regard, he stressed that despite the fact that the rains hardly affected the municipality, the around 150 liters per square meter registered upstream of the ravine, which empties into the Cinca river as it passes through Pomar, caused the flood.
A situation, he added, that would have been “different” if the Clamor ravine was clean.