5,500 students from Talavera de la Reina will continue without class this Wednesday for the flood of the Tajo River | Spain
The Ministry of Education of Castilla-La Mancha will suspend classes in seven centers of Talavera de la Reina (Toledo) on Wednesday before the flood that the Tagus is experiencing for the unbalanced, upstream, in several swamps of this hydrographic basin. These are the IES San Isidro, Ribera del Tajo, Father Juan de Mariana and Puerta de Cuartos, the Bartolomé Nicolau and Our Lady of Prado Childhood and Our Lady Education Colleges, and the Special Education College Madre de la Esperanza, which brings together some 5,500 students, and that this Tuesday were evicted after one of the river's capacity stations in its passage through the city reached the city. The measure also affects the Talaverano Campus of the University of Castilla-La Manchaalso close to the channel of the Tagus.
The decision has been adopted at the Tuesday afternoon meeting of the Operational Coordination Center (CECOP) that monitors the flood of several rivers after activation last Sunday at level 1 of the Special Civil Protection Plan against the risk of flooding in Castilla-La Mancha (Pricam), when several reservoirs of the Tajo Hydrographic Confederation began to evacuate water by their resounds when they approach its maximum level. « The completion of the face -to -face activity in these centers will be maintained until new order, while the red alert is maintained in the Tagus, » explained the Delegate of Education in Toledo, José Gutiérrez, who has asked for « tranquility » to the parents and that they are pending the information that will be provided through the platform We educateclm.
The Talaverano town hall has also closed several parks and has cut the accesses to the Roman Bridge and the Fairground, in addition to suspending the market planned for Wednesday. The mayor, José Julián Gregorio, recalled that “it is strictly forbidden to approach the river” and that an evacuation device has been prepared in the First of May Sports Center As if it were necessary to evict the housing closest to the channel, which on Tuesday approached up to almost five meters high and that the water continues to receive that the reservoirs of San Juan, chopped, Cazalegas and Castrejón are injecting the Alberche River and this, in turn, to the pit. Talavera and six other riverside locations received a civil protection avenues on Monday.
The CECOP, chaired by the Minister of Finance and Public Administrations, Juan Alfonso Ruiz Molina, also monitors the flood of the Tagus as it passes through Toledo, where the flow has been quintupled in just ten days, waking some sections of the ecological path, and by the rest of the localities that appear to the pool. In this province, Homes are tens, mostly second residences, which have been evicted in locations such as Santa Cruz de Retamar, Hormigos, El Casar de Escalona and Escalona. In this last municipality, the City Council maintains a device with more than 30 troops and has enabled a shelter in the sports hall equipped with beds, blankets and heating. The mayor, Álvaro Gutiérrez, does not rule out new evictions in the next few hours if the river level continues to rise.
« All prevention is little »
In the province of Guadalajara, the floods of the Sorbe, Bornava and Tajuña rivers, in addition to the Henares, which on Tuesday remained in a red level when channeling the water that are evacuating the reservoirs of Beleña, Alcorlo and Pálmatos and that has also flooded numerous hectares of crops on both margins of the river. The City Council of the Capital has suspended the activity in the sports facilities near the channel and has designed an response plan in case it had to evacuate the homes, educational centers and residences closest to the river, especially in the neighborhoods of the Chopera and Manantiales, whose neighbors have been asked to remove cars and passes from the garages. The accesses to the Fluvial Park of the capital of Alcarreña are still closed and an animal shelter has been evicted.
The mayor of Guadalajara, Ana Guarinos, said that although the flow had dropped early on Tuesday, the drains in several swamps and the weather forecasts for the next few days force to maintain all the precautions: “more worrying that Alcorlo releases water, is that it continues to rain and it is foreseeable that it will continue in the next few days and, in addition, we will join us, we will join the land that of Beleña and that of Pálmatos ”. « We are in an emergency situation, » he said. The spokeswoman of the regional executive, Esther Padilla, has assured that the affected municipalities are being in permanent contact, sharing « all the information and prevention information to the population that is necessary. » « All prevention is little, » said the government spokeswoman.
