Broken roads and a town with muddy water: the day after the Ebro downpours

BarcelonaThe storm's devastation in Terres de l'Ebre is concentrated mainly in Montsià: Firefighters worked intensively this Tuesday in the municipalities of Santa Bárbara and Godall to "normalize" the roads, urban roads, and rural paths that are impassable due to the water and mud there. In this second municipality, with 600 inhabitants, the water coming from the wells has become cloudy due to the rains, according to sources from the Catalan Water Agency (ACA), and it is likely that they will have to supply water with tanker trucks until the problem is resolved, for which the Government will offer lines of '.

While waiting for the Government to lift mobility restrictions this Wednesday, Civil Protection tonight downgraded the Inuncat plan to alert, which it had raised to an emergency level in recent days, and announced that classes in schools and medical consultations will resume normally on Wednesday.

This Tuesday, emergency services efforts focused on reopening blocked roads and paths in Santa Bárbara and Godall, and the head of the emergency services, Oriol Corbella, explained that on Wednesday, efforts will be directed to Alcanar and La Ràpita, with the 'ay'. "There are areas where we have made more progress and others where there is still work to be done," he admitted. After the evaluation of serious structural pathologies was completed, the heavy downpours affected four houses in Godall and a bridge on the N-340a.

However, the heavy rains also affected several sections of the paved surface of the TV-3443 road, known as the Carrova road, which formerly connected Tortosa and Amposta. The force of the water, especially from an overflowing Galera ravine, broke the pavement and displaced it dozens of meters. On the other side, the Generalitat Highway Department is working to repair the C-12, where the force of the water broke and swept away fences and signs, leaving mountains of trash and mud blocking traffic.

The rains will also require the demolition and reconstruction of the bridge at the main entrance to La Rápita. Technicians and firefighters analyzed the infrastructure on Tuesday and determined that the damage caused by the force of the water to the bridge on Sant Josep Street, which crosses the Solito ravine, makes it unviable to continue as it is at this time.

In Alcanar, regarding infrastructure, the damage has not been too serious, and now stones and mud will have to be removed and houses cleaned. In Roquetes (Baix Ebre), the recovery operation for municipal roads has been reinforced, and destroyed passages and breakwaters will have to be rebuilt.

The Mediterranean Corridor has been restored.

In a media address this morning, the Minister of the Interior, Núria Parlon, urged that, despite forecasts indicating that the rain would ease during the day, caution be exercised in the area due to the danger of accumulating rainfall in already flooded areas.

As of 8:00 p.m., Adif has announced that it is restoring rail service on the Mediterranean Corridor between Barcelona and Valencia. Thus, rail service will be possible between Ulldecona and Aldea, the section that was closed due to "serious damage," according to the company in a statement.