At the beginning of August last year, the Ministry of Public Works and Communications (MOPC) began work on the Tres Bocas crossing. It is a tunnel passage and a roundabout. Since then, the ordeal began for more than 70 families in the area who are affected by each storm. Without a real solution from the ministry or the supplier firm.
The rainfall recorded on Tuesday night was the most important since the works began.
María Lea Melgarejo de López, president of the Tres Bocas Zone Frontiers Association, stated that, since August, when the work began, they have suffered from inclement weather, and highlighted that the last recorded rains were the worst.
“The torrent entered the houses of all the frontists. Especially in those located on Avelino Martínez Avenue. A few on South Access in front of the Arroyo Seco Police Station. They are overflowing all the channels that they opened to make the walls. It stays like a canal and the water runs through it like a river”, he explained.
Tecnoedil is the company that carries out the work. The mud left by the torrent enters the houses. The supplier firm usually assists the families by removing all the mud in trucks, but now, given the greater scale of the incident, the families find themselves in uncertainty.
“After this I don’t know how those people will be. All their houses are about to fall down. The asphalt of Avelino Martínez avenue is peeling off by the block. We are very bad. They did not foresee. They should have made a canal or a gutter”, he expressed.
GONZALEZ
Ricardo González, frentista, affirmed that it is a pity that they are pending in torrents to go or not to work.
“We have to deal with water because of ineffective workers and civil engineers who don’t know how to handle such a simple job. We are several houses affected. There are some that have collapsed and it hurts, because they are inoperative,” he said.
YELLOW
Ángel Amarilla, frontist and president of the March 9 Settlement, said that many claims have already been made and that the MOPC responds by sending workers in some cases to remove the sand that enters the residences.
“If they don’t come, we have to pay. It is about G. 80 thousand to G. 100 thousand per residence. In some houses the water enters inside. These workers are paid very little because they are very heavy jobs,” he explained.
NO ANSWERS
Melgarejo pointed out that from the MOPC they always reply that they will come to verify the works and that it will be fixed, but the person in charge of the works, the real person in charge, does not answer messages or calls.
We tried to communicate with Ing. Alfredo Bordón, in charge of the works. However, he noted that he is not the authorized spokesperson. He asked us to speak with the Vice Minister of Works or with the portfolio’s director of roads. Of these last two we did not have answers until the closing of the edition.
