Hidralia adds for the resilience of the city and minimizes the possible adverse consequences of precipitation.

Hidralia, a concessionaire of drinking water and sewerage service, and the Roquetas City Council are preparing the city's infrastructures for rainwater drainage for the fall precipitation season. Among the measures being carried out is the strengthening of the cleanliness of the network that collects rainwater and the water outlet of the town, which will allow the sewerage network to be in its full hydraulic capacity and minimize the impacts of storms on citizens.

The goal is for the locality to be prepared for the water stress caused by the rains, sometimes turned into temporary forts as has happened in recent years as a result of climate change. With these maintenance and reinforcement actions, Hidralia adds to achieve the resilience of the city and be more prepared for the possible adverse consequences of the storms.

The  planning and maintenance of the appropriate infrastructures, in addition to getting the lives of citizens back to normal as soon as possible, keeping them informed quickly and effectively. Therefore, reinforcement tasks are complemented by the continuous maintenance of the infrastructures that collect rainwater and the intelligent management of rainwater.

Digitization

In Roquetas, the sensorization of the network, the monitoring of the pumping stations controlled from the central remote control, allows to increase the resilience of the municipality and react more efficiently to the arrival of the rains. A technology that together with the WiCast information system of weather information, will make it easier for the municipality to anticipate possible inclement weather that could saturate the sewerage network and prevent possible flooding.

In addition, Hidralia develops a regular zone cleaning program that aims to maintain in a perfect state of conservation and operation the entire network of imbornals. In total, there are thirty defined areas for an intervention brigade with the necessary equipment to carry out the cleaning work.

These works are intensified by ^the forecast of storms, and during rainy events the incidents that arise, signaling and proceeding to the cleaning of the affected areas are addressed. In addition, Hidralia performs a subsequent review ^of the critical points where traces of the rain effect may appear, leaving all the infrastructure in correct condition.

Preventive cleaning of water outlet, efficient maintenance of the sanitation and storm network, as well as the construction of storm tanks or planning the structural needs of the city in case of heavy rains, are some of the fundamental elements to be able to deal with these episodes.

Specifically, Hidralia manages about 5,000 scupper in Roquetas de Mar, while the sanitation network has more than 220 kilometers of collectors, 35 pumping stations and four storm tanks with a capacity of 25,000 m3. The scuppers are responsible for the evacuation of stormwater, as they transport it to its exit to the natural environment so that they do not cause flooding in the population.

Preventive cleaning of infrastructure is a critical job in the proper maintenance of the network. In just one year, Hidralia has arrived to collect at the Wastewater Treatment Station (which serves about 200,000 inhabitants) a total of 50 tons of solid waste from the local network.

On the other hand, Hidralia carries out various environmental awareness campaigns to raise awareness of the correct use of networks. Waste continues to detect some that are especially harmful to both the natural environment and the city's sewer system and network, such as wipes or intimate hygiene products, and now masks, which, in addition to the environmental and health risk, cause breakdowns and hazardous situations in the general water evacuation system.