Puerto Vallarta, Mexico – As preventive measures before the coming rainy and tropical cyclone season, the Puerto Vallarta Public Works Department is busy cleaning and desilting rivers, streams and canals throughout the municipality. This, in order to avoid floods that could put Vallartenses’ lives and properties at risk.
The director of Public Works, Elihú Sánchez Rodríguez, announced that on the instructions of Mayor Luis Alberto Michel Rodríguez, the desilting program has yielded a large amount of dirt and debris from the riverbeds, such as the case of the Pitillal river, and there is considerable progress in the programmed actions.
So far, 18,194 cubic meters of material have been removed. Work has been completed on the Los Tules vein, between the streets of Vienna and Río Amarillo; the channel that runs parallel to the Luis Donaldo Colosio Bypass; the Santa María stream; the Federation channel; the Linda Vista stream, in the Colonia Cristóbal Colón; and the canal in the Sendero de Luna neighborhood, from which 9,570 cubic meters of material were extracted.
Work continues on the La Virgen and El Contentillo streams; in El Pitillal, where each storm generate problems, with progress of up to 75 percent; in the El Zarco and El Colorado streams, in the rural area; the channel that runs parallel to Av. México in the eastern part of the El Salado estuary, from Mangle to Palmas; the channel parallel to Av. Universidad at Centro Universitario de la Costa; and the Pitillal River, from which 2,500 CBM of material have already been removed.
Added to this are the tasks of improving access roads and leveling the ground in high areas on dirt roads, as well as the work on the storm drain in Las Juntas and the construction of the Cuale Island retaining wall, which will reinforce protection against rising rivers during storms.
“Prior to the rainy season, we continued with the flood prevention and mitigation work with cleaning and desilting in various channels of the municipality. Thus, we advance with work and investment in the transformation of Puerto Vallarta,” explained the official.
Source: puertovallarta.gob.mx
