The General Directorate of Roads of the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, has authorised AGAMED to carry out the “expansion of the rainwater lamination pond adjacent to the N-332 in the municipality of Torrevieja”, located in the Doña Inés Urbanisation, one of the areas most affected for years by torrential rains.
The General Directorate of Highways has been criticised for taking almost 5 months to approve the authorisation for the execution of these important and necessary rainwater works in Doña Inés, but for the residents, the 5-month delay will be nothing compared to the years they have had to put up with constant flooding into their homes. However, the Government team of the Torrevieja Council has expressed its satisfaction with this authorisation, “valid for a period of 18 months” counted from the notification of the granting of the authorisation, for which the works will begin and end within these deadlines.
These works, which will be tendered and awarded in a few days by AGAMED, could begin in two weeks and the execution budget amounts to 524,300 euro (IVA included), with the execution period of the works being about five months. The surface area of the rolling pond to be built is 4,533 square metres and the average depth is 3.2 metres.
This is the expansion of the rainwater lamination pond on the left bank of the N-332 highway, in a public domain area, which receives water from the lamination pond attached to the Los Mercados site and from the ditch from the east side of the N-332 road.
Given the low storage capacity (approximately 2,000 m3) in the existing rolling pond, even in medium-intensity rains, the pond fills and overflows, causing flooding in the Doña Inés urbanisation, cutting traffic, and making it impossible for residents to access and exit their homes, as again we have seen only this week.
In order to minimise flooding in this area and given the magnitude of the flow rates towards the area where the rolling pond is located, it was considered necessary to expand the existing rolling pond, so that it has a greater capacity for storage (it will increase to 14,000 m3) for the water coming from the existing transversal drainage works. In this way, flooding in the urbanisation and on the N-332 road will be minimised.
