Developed an integrated emergency plan

Abu Dhabi Municipality finishes its preparations for the rainy season

Abu Dhabi Municipality conducts periodic maintenance of rainwater drainage networks, outfalls and stations.

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The Municipality of Abu Dhabi City has completed its preparations for the rainy season 2022-2023, by strengthening and raising the efficiency of the rainwater drainage network in the city of Abu Dhabi, developing an integrated plan for emergencies resulting from rainwater, and providing a fleet of machines and equipment to deal with emergency situations and degrees.

The fleet of machinery and equipment includes diesel and electric pumps, water intake tanks, and generators, in a manner that guarantees business continuity and protects community members from any effects resulting from weather fluctuations, while protecting public utilities, municipal assets and roads, and ensuring rapid and safe drainage of rainwater.

The municipality confirms that it is working to conduct periodic and continuous maintenance of rainwater drainage networks, outfalls, and stations, as part of the precautionary measures it takes to mitigate emergencies during the rainy season, and these works are intensified before the rainy seasons come, as 7,200 km of lines were cleaned, and periodic maintenance was carried out for 204 Thousands and 625 drainage assets, 204 marine outfalls, and 102 pumping stations.

The technical teams conduct field visits to the sites on an ongoing basis, in order to ensure that these systems operate with the required efficiency, and the response plans are continuously updated, and to ensure the readiness of the contact centers of the contractors to receive complaints during the rains, provided that the work is 24 hours a day throughout the week.

The municipality added that it is detecting the places of water collection in the last rainfall through records of previous operation and maintenance projects, identifying sufficient labor and equipment to deal with it, and identifying areas and assets expected to be affected during the rain, to deal with it immediately when it rains.

With regard to new projects related to rainwater drainage, the Municipality of Abu Dhabi City confirmed that it is currently completing the construction of rainwater drainage networks in areas that do not contain a network or have interruptions in the network. The construction of rainwater drainage networks is also being completed in large areas that do not include networks, from During the implementation of projects commensurate with the outputs of the master plan for infrastructure in the city of Abu Dhabi.

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