The Madrid City Council has drawn up a "risk map" of its sewerage network with which it has identified

404 "critical points"

where water reservoirs occur when it rains heavily in the city.

Given the meteorological forecast of rainfall for this Wednesday afternoon, 320 municipal workers will inspect and clean the drains that during the last five years have concentrated citizen warnings for incidents.

The objective of this "preventive" plan is

"to prevent floods from occurring"

due to the remnants of snow and ice left by the storm

Filomena

as it passed through the capital, as explained this Monday by the Area delegate of Environment and Mobility.

To do this, any element that could plug these urban drains will be removed "as a priority".

The 404 sewers that concern the Madrid City Council are located in the 21 districts of the city, with special emphasis on those of Chamartín and Moncloa-Aravaca.

Among the locations in which they will perform is the Plaza de Marqués de Vadillo, in Carabachel.

Throughout the Community of Madrid there are

more than 350,000 scuppers

, that is, openings in the road to conduct rain or irrigation water to the sewer.

Around 180,000, 51%, are located in the capital.

Canal de Isabel II has sent a statement to all city councils requesting that they

"keep their sewage system clean and clear

to prevent the entrances from being blocked."

Specifically, councils have been instructed to remove snow and solid waste such as garbage, branches and accumulated leaves.

In the public company they explain that

periodic preventive maintenance of the

municipal-owned

pipelines

is carried out

for the conduction of urban wastewater to the treatment plants and that they are "totally revised."

"The only problem there may be is that what is accumulated in the streets, if it goes to one of the drains, they cannot fulfill their function," explains a spokeswoman, who insists on the need to clear the adjacent areas.

Thaw

The forecast is that, after the thaw, the 13 reservoirs in the Community of Madrid managed will receive up to 70 cubic hectometres of water, the equivalent of the

consumption of the 6.7 million inhabitants of the region for two months

and 7.4% of its full capacity.

On average, they are currently at 79%.

Canal de Isabel II "once again demonstrates its ability to respond to the snowfall by putting itself at the service of the people of Madrid," said the Minister of the Environment, Spatial Planning and Sustainability Paloma Martín, on a visit to the dam of Navacerrada.

He has also explained that the

20,000 incidents caused by the storm

and the cold wave in the pipes of the region have been solved 61% after multiplying by 11 the number of technicians to 660.

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