The opposition in the House of Lisbon came back on Monday to criticize the president of the agency, António Costa, by floods late this afternoon, denounced the lack of cleaning the gutters and demanding that the drainage plan of the city go.
Councilman PSD in Lisbon Chamber Mauro Xavier told Lusa that will “propose, in the seat of the municipal assembly, the ad hoc commission to determine liability in this matter.”
“We do not understand that cleaning and urban hygiene is a matter of left or right, but rather a matter of competence, and in this case the City of Lisbon has been clearly incompetent, “said the councilman, referring to the lack of cleaning the gutters.
For Councilman Mauro Xavier, among the measures that should be put in place to solve the problem of flooding is “the drainage plan of the city, which will drain the water, and cleaning gutters in the summer weather “.
” It is important to implement this plan of drainage of the city that for seven years in the tray and António Costa has, but not implemented, “he said.
According to António Prôa also alderman of PSD in the House of Lisbon, in the floods today “the tide was far from full (…), the orange warning was announced in advance, (…) and therefore can not assign the blame neither the tide nor meteorologists. “
” This time no one believes that these phenomena are punctual, “he said.
According to Councilman CDS-PP João Gonçalves Pereira, flooding today “only come to justify the priority that is running a drainage plane in Lisbon, which is only dependent on what is a purely political decision.”
“The € 153 million that are needed for this intervention should be used in a phased manner (…), what the Chamber says is that the county currently does not have this value in order to proceed with the drainage plan, but it is a false argument, “he said.
PCP Councilman Carlos Moura said that the situation of flooding in the city of Lisbon “is particularly serious,” since “there since 2008, a drainage plan for the capital and that nothing justifies these years all nothing has been put into practice. “
” It is true that it is a very costly plan in terms of cost, but in terms of cost / benefit ratio favors the city and the citizens. There are measures that are required to practice at least the most urgent measures of the drainage plan of Lisbon, as the creation of retention basins, “he said.
The heavy rain that fell on Monday between 14h and 15h, the capital caused several floods in several parts of the city.
According to the web site of Procedure of the Fire Brigade (RSB), were recorded floods in Benfica, São Domingos de Benfica , Groves and Mercy, Nations Park, Star, Alvalade, Santa Clara, Campolide, Help and St. Anthony.
The tunnels of Campo Grande, the tunnel Avenida João XXI and the Walk Carriche were cut in traffic during the afternoon due to accumulation of water following the heavy rain that was felt during the afternoon, said police source Lusa, a situation that was resolved about two hours later.
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