Hidralia also undertakes the clearing of the channels of the existing spillways in the city to facilitate the evacuation of stormwater

Hidralia, the concessionaire of the drinking water and sewerage service in San Fernando, is immersed in its campaign to reinforce the cleaning of the municipality's toilets in view of the next autumn rainy season.   A reinforcement that complements the actions carried out throughout the year, where the more than 7,500 imbornales that the municipality has are systematically cleaned, the adaptation and sanitation of the city's networks is carried out and the preventive and corrective maintenance of the pumping stations are carried out.

Thanks to this campaign, which is carried out periodically, it is achieved that the sewers are at the maximum of their hydraulic capacity to transport the fallen waters and avoid possible damage with the arrival of the rainy season.

According to the Maintenance and Cleaning Plan of the Sewerage System of the city of San Fernando for this year, during the months of July, August and, especially September, the intensive cleaning of the imbornales and sewerage networks of the city will be carried out.

In this campaign, special attention is being paid to cleaning up the most critical areas of the city. Among these are the networks of San Onofre and San Marcos, the Bridge of great power and the Sale of Vargas, as well as the Bazan, Pery Junquera or the Alley of the Navy, among others.

Minimize the risk of flooding

Within this planning, the cleaning and maintenance of the channels of the existing spillways in the city, mainly those located in the area of the Parque del Oeste and Fire Station, is especially relevant. To this end, it will be systematically cleared and cleaned to facilitate at all times the evacuation of stormwater that reaches them, thus minimizing the risk of flooding in case of heavy rains.

Hidralia, has replanned its maintenance plan for the cleaning of logging wells and sewerage networks to try to ensure the optimal functioning of the sanitation system of the city of San Fernando in the face of the upcoming autumn rains. With regard to the cleaning of imbornales, more than 7,500 will be carried out, in addition to repairing the wells of records and imbornales that are damaged.

Likewise, the Maintenance and Cleaning Plan also includes the 16 wastewater pumping stations in San Fernando, whose mission is to promote these to the treatment plant. Thus, since the beginning of the year, the main pumping stations in the city, such as Venta de Vargas, Pery Junquera, Zaporito, Milagrosa and San Carlos, have been regularly cleaned so that they are fully operational for the autumn.

In this sense, Hidralia recalls that the inappropriate use of the sewerage systems of the houses can cause breakdowns and dangerous situations in the general sewerage system of the city. Among these inappropriate uses are the removal through the toilet of wet bath wipes, which end up forming jams in sewerage networks or pumping stations, seriously jeopardizing the operation of the general water evacuation system.

In addition, there has been an increase in the networks of items such as gloves or masks, which are used for the prevention of COVID-19, which ends up in the sewers when not discarded in the correct way. In this way, Hidralia urges the indications of different agencies such as the Ministry of Health, remembering that such waste should not be thrown down the toilet or in the streets, since they will eventually end up in the sewerage system or in nature. According to the recommendations, the general container should be disposed of without exceptional measures if they have been used by people without COVID19. However, if gloves and masks have been worn by people affected by the virus, the need to deposit this waste in a plastic bag, inside a second garbage bag, which is in a different bin from the rest of the waste.