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The City Council will request the declaration of Murcia as a catastrophic area due to heavy rains (22/12/2016)

The City of Murcia will urge the State and the Autonomous Community to include the municipality within the delimitation of a catastrophic zone due to heavy rains from 17 to 20 December, for the purposes of the decree of aid to be approved.

This was one of the agreements contained in a motion of urgency that has been unanimously approved by the Plenary of the Corporation held this morning, in which the Mayor has reported the assessment of damages caused in the municipality by the storm, which Amounted to 7.3 million euros.

The greatest damage has been recorded in the local road network, streets and avenues and in sports facilities, sanitation, housing and municipal centers, but also have been large in parks and gardens, hydraulic networks and electricity and traffic infrastructures.

The motion to conclude the plenary session also foresees the request to the state and regional administrations to create a centralized register so that the victims can process the communications of damages suffered and request the aid, so that in the immediate future they can accede To funds intended to alleviate the effects on their persons or property

Finally, the proposal includes the request to the Government of Spain and the Autonomous Community to execute the hydraulic infrastructures to improve the evacuation of flows in case of heavy rains, especially the northern collector, whose processing has already begun.

Plenary had begun by reading an institutional statement of thanks to all those who have worked to alleviate the effects of the heavy rains.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia

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