The municipality of knew still going through a situation criticism as a result of the winter emergency that occurred on saturday september 3 when heavy rains caused the overflow of the river which bears the same name of the municipality and the Rapao creek.
The magnitude of the emergency is such that eight days after the most critical moment, the census is still being prepared, showing figures that are increasingly dramatic. And it is precisely the last report that realizes a dead person, 26 injured, 2,987 families affected, 48 houses affected, 84 damaged and 934 affected.
The affectations in the municipality of the upper west of Caldense also have repercussions on the road network where the accompaniment of the National Institute of Roads (INVIAS) where operators of this entity remove dozens of landslides that interrupt the vehicular flow on the national road and in multiple country roads.
However, the most important action carried out by INVIAS is reflected in the Supía river basin, as far as the institutional capacity has come to restore normality to the riverbed, altered by the amount of rocks, mud, and sedimentary material that the tributary dragged in the torrential avenue.
The intervention of the INVIAS machinery has been essential to support actions such as the channel deepening, cleaning of debris, and the redirection of the channel whose purpose is to avoid a new flood in the near future, taking into account that according to the report of the IDEAM the second rainy season of 2022 so far it starts.
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“INVIAS, in coordination with the National Risk Management Unit supplies operators and machinery to attend to the different emergency fronts that arose. On the one hand, activities are being supported to redirect the flow of the river Y build garrets storms that help contain the strength of the river against a sudden rise that may occur later “, explained the director general (e) of INVIAS Guillermo Toro Acuña.
Andres Felipe Gomez, Secretary of Infrastructure of Supíaassured on RCN Radio that one of the urgent needs of the municipality was the reconstruction of at least five bridges that communicate corregimientos and paths, an activity in which the National Institute of Roads also hopes to contribute.
