This Wednesday they decreed the public calamity in the municipality of Campo de la Cruz, Atlántico, due to flooding in at least 10 neighborhoods.
This was announced by Mayor Vanessa Torres, who said that since They are already using yellow machinery to open the drainage channels so that the water leaves the 10 affected sectors as soon as possible.
Likewise, Torres said that there are between 70 to 80 families victims, whom they are accompanying. He added that the drains, many of them located on farms, They were covered by weeds.
“We are in the streets, serving people. We are with “This machinery opens the drainage channels to somehow help the water leave the municipality,” he said.
The president said that the affected people are sleeping with other relatives and evaluating relocating them to schools if the rainy situation persists. Besides, that there are crops that are being lost.
From Campo de la Cruz they called on the Government so that the owners of the farms where these drains are located can allow the entry of yellow machinery to carry out these cleaning works.
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