7 alerts are those that the Attorney General’s Office has warned about the progress in Mocoa after the avalanche that occurred in 2017, they estimate that mitigation plans have not been completed.
Colombian News.
On April 1, 2017, Colombia witnessed a large-scale avalanche that shook Mocoa, a municipality in the department of Putumayo.
From the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation they have referred to the issue, noting the 7 alerts that the reconstruction of Mocoa currently has.
Through preventive monitoring that the entity has been doing since 2021, it has been possible to learn that there has been “little progress in rebuilding homes.”
According to the report, “909 houses of the willows 2 project and 87 houses of the willows 3 project are still not built.”
Of the 6 years that the tragedy has passed, only 37% of what was expected to be built in just 3 years has been fulfilled.
On the other hand, issues such as risk mitigation have advanced, but “they are not 100% complete.”
Due to management issues, contracts and appointments, these works have been affected.
6 years after the tragedy in #mocoa7 crucial projects for the reconstruction and recovery of the municipality do not take off, although great progress has been made on other fronts.
Know the alerts of the @PGN_COL https://t.co/u3FntZ6LZg #It’sNews pic.twitter.com/TXUP0pAdH9
– Attorney General’s Office (@PGN_COL) April 2, 2023
There are 7 projects under sight
In total there are 7 projects that are in the public eye of the public institution, to the previous ones are added the mitigation works, the mega-school, the aqueduct, the market square and the penitentiary center.
In figures, the Mocoa avalanche left a balance of 332 people dead, more than 400 injured, 77 missing and more than 22,000 homeless.
It is expected that with the progress of many of these projects, Mocoa can be active again, since only with the construction of the Market Square will benefit about 450 merchants.
“That they activate the mechanisms that are necessary for there to be a prompt solution,” they pointed out from the Attorney General’s Office in Colombia.
