Cádiz | Guadalete’s flood causes some volunteer evictions in Jerez
The City Council of Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) has activated at six o’clock this Friday the orange notice due to overflow of the Guadalete River and the emergency phase in operational situation 1, a circumstance that has derived in the first volunteer evictions among the population closest to its banks.
Municipal sources have explained to Europa Press that during the early morning seven people, four adults and three children, from the rural neighborhood of Las Pachecas, an evacuation that was requested by the neighbors themselves has been evicted.
In this way, two of them have spent the night with relatives, while the rest have been housed in the Cáritas shelter enabled by the City Council in the portal.
From the City Council, precautions have been requested to the population, being aware of the evolution taken by the river, which currently lowers with a 5.20 meter flow.
On this, the same sources have detailed that the Guadalete is rising “slightly”, so from the Junta de Andalucía, which is the one who takes command of the operation having entered into level 1 of emergency, the general eviction of the habitable and flood areas has not been activated. Thus, it is estimated that until the river does not reach the level of 5.40 meters, this decision would not be made, so it is pending how the day is evolving, in which rains are not expected. A week ago, 200 people had to be evicted due to the high flow with which the Guadalete went down.
On Thursday, 45 liters per square meter fell into Jerez, according to data collected at the airport station by the State Meteorology Agency. The effects of Borrasca Martin They persist this Friday in Andalusia, despite the truce of the rains. However, there are yellow warnings for waves in Cádiz and winds between 50 and 61 kilometers per
hour. (EP)
