The delegate of the Andalusian Government in MalagaPatricia Navarro, has visited the Malaga municipality of Comares, affected after the last DANA, and has reported that drinking water supply has already been restored in its urban center and in two other districts.
Navarro has verified the tasks that are being carried out to resolve the situation caused by the storm in this municipal area, a “complex” situation for having its urban center at the highest point in the Axarquía region and with many districts that have been especially affected.
The delegate has thanked the work from the first day of the Emergency 112 troops and Civil Protection volunteers to carry out cleaning and washing work in the municipality, as well as to offer it to the neighbors who needed it. bottled water while supply problems were resolved.
The pipes, “seriously affected”
Accompanied by the mayor of Comares, José Miguel Ruiz, she referred to the repair work that “is being carried out at the moment, since pipes were seriously affected after the passage of DANA, leaving residents without a drinking water supply”: “It has already been reestablished in the urban center of Comares and in two districts and, successivelyit will be recovered in the rest of the disseminated as the connections and pipes that bring drinking water to those areas are fixed,” Navarro continued.
Cleaning work and recovery of roads and channels have also been carried out more than a hundred performances in different parts of the province with an investment that increases week by week,” he explained. He also added that there are currently 170,000 euros in the budget allocated to actions in the municipalities of Benamargosa, Cútar, Comares, Álora, Casarabonela, Valle de Abdalajís, Algarrobo, Cortes de la Frontera and Benalauría.
Navarrese has recognized the work of all the town councils of the province that, like Comares, “have been making a great effort to overcome this episode of consecutive Danas that has altered the daily lives of citizens.”
For all this, he reported, the town councils have had the support and assistance of the Civil Protection volunteers who are coordinated at all times by Emergencies 112 “in a recovery phase that since November 14 they have been absolutely involved, along with the Infoca troops, and in which their presence will continue to be maintained until all normality is recovered in our municipalities.”
Aid for those affected
On the other hand, the delegate of the Andalusian Government in Malaga has reported on the “aid package mobilized by the Junta de Andalucía to face the effects of DANA in the municipalities of the community, which amounts to 90 million euros“. Its amount has increased after the extension approved this Tuesday by the Governing Council of the Junta de Andalucía to reach the 20 million euros that will be allocated to the town councils.
Thus, to the 12 million euros in aid approved by the Andalusian Government on November 5, another eight are now added to provide coverage to those municipalities that have suffered damage as a result of the meteorological storm that occurred in the province at the beginning of November.
After its approval by the Government Council, the Official Gazette of the Government of Andalusia (BOJA) has published said agreement, including a list of the municipalities that are included as especially affected by adverse natural phenomena of the second DANA.
In the first DANA, 48 municipalities were included to be able to request aid from local entities. Now, that list is expanded to the 74 municipalitiesof which 34 of them are newly incorporated. After publication in the BOJA, the town councils have 10 days to request said aid from the Andalusian Government.
Another line of aid, with a total of 57 million eurosare heading to the Andalusian countryside, “which is currently keeping the application period open” to distribute between hydraulic infrastructures, with 10 million euros and another 10 destined for rural roads. Added to this are another 11 for roads and 2 more for educational centers.
The delegate has also highlighted that 150 million euros are added to this aid “in line with aid and guarantees offered to SMEs and self-employed that may have seen their treasury affected by these DANAS and to which those included in the agricultural sector will also have access”.
Likewise, the Junta de Andalucía “has planned a tax credit on the purchase of vehicles second-hand among owners for those who lost their car”, a point in which he clarified that the Board “will reduce the Property Transfer Tax from 4% to 0.1%, being practically eliminated”, he concluded.