There are areas of the departmental capital that suffer from global warming in a direct and totally measurable way. This is the case of María Nimmo and Zorrilla de San Martín streets.
With the visit of technicians from the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP), the mayor Sarett had first-hand information that in that area the temperature is 6 degrees higher than that registered in the center of Colonia, where the shadow of the plane trees On the other hand, from the Department of Hygiene of the Intendancy, this possibility raised by the mayor was also analyzed with a positive look in this regard.
Likewise, from the MGAP, it is exhorting that there be more afforestation in the cities to reduce global warming, since those areas or cities that are forested suffer less from high temperatures.
The mayor proposed in her project that a pilot plan be implemented in María Nimmo and Zorrilla de San Martín streets, in the departmental capital, to carry out afforestation using deciduous trees. These can be ash, cherry and/or walnut trees. Any of them that are in possession or possibility of acquiring by the Municipal Nursery.
This pilot plan can be extended, after previous evaluations of the areas of the Intendancy that must act in this way, to other areas, both in the city and in cities of the Department.
For the mayor Sarett, in this way you can contribute to improving the quality of life of residents of the area; beautify it, reduce the impact of high temperatures and not attack the visual environment, even going so far as to revalue the properties found there.
Secretary report of the mayor Malvina Sarett
