The minister of Transportation and Public Works (MTOP), José Luis Falerostated that the bridge The Charqueada It was not what was flooded, but rather it was the access to it; and he assured that “it was predictable” after the heavy rains that occurred in Uruguay.
The La Charqueada bridge that connects Onion (Rocha) and General Enrique Martínez (Thirty-Three) was at the center of the controversy after the heavy rainfall that fell yesterday throughout the country, which led to the flooding of some areas after the flooding of rivers and streams.
From a publication by the former Broad Front minister Jose Bayardi —which shared a video of the flooded accesses on its Twitter account, pointing out that “this was seen today on the recently inaugurated bridge over the Cebollatí”—, the government came out to clarify possible misunderstandings of what they also considered a “political movement” by the former leader of Broad Front.
“The accesses to Cebollatí were flooded,” Falero clarified to Telemundo, adding that “it was foreseeable that in floods it would continue to be flooded as always”. “Not the bridge, because it has a length of 192 meters that never floods, except in a catastrophe. For the bridge to flood, all of La Charqueada would be flooded,” explained the head of the MTOP.
Likewise, the minister explained that in the work inaugurated last July 31, “a significant slope” was raised to avoid frequent flooding, since the area previously “was usually detonated when it had flooded and had to be rebuilt again.” “It was planned that the access to the slope would be covered with concrete with an asphalt mixture, which means that When the river goes down you can pass without any difficulty“, he valued.
Falero assured that when the technical studies were carried out it was understood that It was “unfeasible” to make the accesses “non-floodable” because “it would affect the city of Cebollatí if the access slope is raised too much.” For this reason, he pointed out that “Perhaps access will be blocked for 10 or 15 days”but in the total for the year this does not mean a substantial impact.
Regarding the criticism from the opposition—which motivated many others from social media users—the minister said that it was possibly motivated “by ignorance.” “Those who don’t know the area may think that. Those points so far away neglected by the opposition for 15 years, now there is an investment that changed the life of the place and bothers. They are misinforming. There’s a early electoral period and anything is good to make noise. “They make noise on networks that people who don’t know get confused,” he concluded.
The Broad Front complaint
The response of the head of the MTOP occurred after a video published by the former minister of Work and Social Security (MTSS) and of Defending during the governments of the Frente Amplio, José Bayardi.
“This was seen today in the recently opened bridge about Cebollatí. It seems that the local baqueanos They would have warned what could happen. And it happened. And well, it could go wrong,” he wrote from his account on the social network, today called X.
The images shared by the former minister show part of what appears to be the La Charqueada bridge covered by water after the river flooded. However, as the MTOP pointed out, it is not about the bridge but about the access the same.
The mayor of Rocha, Alejo Umpiérrez, He was also responsible for denying the “misunderstanding” generated by Bayardi’s video. “It seems unbelievable,” she wrote, demanding “an iota of seriousness” from the former official. “The bridge is not floodable. Access through low areas does eventually suffer from rising waters. It’s a few days a year. The rest of the year people enjoy what you didn’t do. Please don’t be like that,” she expressed.
Later, the mayor wrote again “for the disaster activists”, attaching a photo of the current state of the bridge.
Source: Ambito
