The Lisbon City Hall today attributed the flooding in the city to the high rainfall, which ranked atypical, arguing that although there may be aspects to improve the gutters and sinks were clean.
“The intensity of rain today was greater than September 22, the last similar episode in the city,” said Councilman Lusa Public Spaces and Urban Hygiene, Duarte Cordeiro.
“Hardly a city could stand, regardless of the medium or not they had to drain the water,” he said, adding there was “an early restoration of normalcy,” thus ending raining.
The councilor admitted being important to the camera the existence of a drainage plan, indicating that this instrument has “been on the march.”
It found, however, that situations such as those caused by heavy rains this afternoon would not be filled “only by the existence of a drainage plan.”
The official said that as the weather that caused flooding in several parts of the city have “a degree of excecionalidade” that regardless of the existence of a drainage plan or some improvement, “always exist”.
With regard to cleaning the gutters and drains the councilman said that there may be circumstances that are not properly cleaned, but insisted that in most cases this was not the cause of the flooding.
“What we found was a very significant rainfall intensity and obviously the pipes and collectors to support the city did not hold the volume of water that flowed at that precise moment,” he maintained.
“These situations were not alone surmountable by the existence of a drainage plan,” he added.
The opposition in the House of Lisbon came back today to criticize the president of the agency, António Costa, by floods during the afternoon, denouncing lack of cleaning the gutters and demanding that the drainage plan proceed.
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