Mayor Cecilia Patrón Laviada reported that her administration would build 20 cisterns in this first year of government in points where considerable flooding due to precipitated water usually occurs.
The mayor announced the above during the supervision of the construction of three cisterns in the Vergel neighborhood on Pedagogical Avenue, where the municipality is building three mega wells to capture up to 75 millimeters of rain. The latter will prevent flooding of the area, damage to the road due to water accumulation, and free movement for pedestrians. Jorge Alberto Espinosa Atoche, director of Municipal Public Services, accompanied Cecilia Patrón.
The municipal president indicated that the cisterns in Vergel are thanks to the municipality resources and are part of the budget that the former administration left to finish this year. They are reorganizing the money for different public services.
“The work we are doing is part of the four-month budget (that we have), which is what they left us this year. We are reorganizing and redirecting the public budget that is going to public services such as drainage, public lighting, patching, street repaving, and garbage,” she indicated.
Regarding the construction of the 20 new cisterns for this first year of government, Espinosa Atoche explained that they will build them in specific areas of the Xoclán, Mulsay, Juan Pablo II, San Antonio Xluch neighborhoods and in the Historic Center, which tends to flood.
He explained that the difference between a rain well and a cistern is that the second has a much greater capacity for collecting water, in addition to having a 12-meter-deep rain well to be able to drain the water collected from the road without affecting the walking of pedestrians and preventing the water from the street from creating potholes.
Regarding the Historic Center, Patrón Laviada explained that his government is working on a project to avoid flooding. They will announce it once the budget is available and approved by the Council.
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