More than 71,500 Aragonese live in zones made up of 206 municipalities.

More than 71,500 Aragonese live in drought zones spread across 206 towns along the Ebro basin. This number will increase further when the review of risk maps is formalized as in Zaragoza. Solo en territorio aragonés, la Confederation Hidrográfica del Ebro (CHE) tiene conabilizados hasta 195 tramos fluviales con un riesgo potentially important de inundación Latest update, after September. It is about 584 kilometers long.

In front of this reality Only 13.5% of potentially affected areas in the entire community have prescriptive action plans. para hacer frente avenidas extraordinarias, tal y como ha este diario el admitted Government of Aragon.

Although the number of municipalities developing them has tripled in the last five years. sigue siendo casi una excepción al representar unique 45 de los 331 obligados a hacerlo por la regulation autonomica in force. El cómputo also includes la cuencas del Jucar y del Tajo, al sur de la province de núcleos dependiente de las cuencas. TeruelIt occupies more than 10% of the territory of Aragon.

The official sources of the CHE divide the flood-prone areas according to the return period of the emergency avenues in the Ebro and its tributaries. In the low-probability scenario, it is estimated that every 500 years, 71,522 people in Aragon will settle in areas that are not potentially inundated.

This population This represents 27% of all estimates for the same conditions in the basin collected in the state's Flood Risk Management Plan (PGRI). valid for 2022-2027 after being approved early last year. The same thing happens when looking at the number of municipal terms with 206 en Aragon a total of 642 in the hydrographic confederation.

In the same document, the affected population will be reduced to 46,587 for medium probability events with a return period of 100 years in Aragon. Menos de la mitad, one 21,999 censados ​​​​the comunidad, si el calculus se ciñe al conjunto de las zonas inundables de Aragon ve episodios de alla extimabilidad, los que se pueden repetiter cada 10.

In the case of an emergency prospect of medium probability, one in 100 years, the CHE highlights that three of the fifteen municipalities most exposed to the risk of flooding in the basin are located in Aragon: Calatayud, Zaragoza y Fraga.

El cited plan de gestioni incide en que In the global Ebro basin, the urban surface that can be seen to be flooded reaches 5,390 hectares in the worst case scenario.. The same thing happened in another 3,371 hectares occupied by infrastructure, 411 in third, and 365 in industrial areas. In any case, agricultural farms are the most affected with 114 thousand 708 hectares.

CHE has just updated the Áreas de Riesgo Potencial Significativo de Inundación, 46 of which have been cataloged throughout the basin extension. Aragon has 195 river trams, 122 of which are located in the province of Zaragoza, and a total of more than 423 kilometers. Le sigue la de Huesca, there are another 47 sectors that add up to 100 kilometers and finally the remaining 26 sectors in Teruel, with an area of ​​about 61 kilometers.

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Plan de Gestión del Risko de Inundación del Organismo de cuenca is one of them. A budget of more than 325 million measures is planned for implementation until 2027. More than half of the total amount, 174.7 million, will be invested in the financing of conservation measures, such as those implemented in the lower part of Zaragoza, and another 67.8 million in prevention measures. You can interfere with protective programs, studios and más zones for protective and protective programs.

The remaining money will be financed preparation and recovery line with 68 and 15.1 million respectively. This set of measures envisages the maintenance of measurement networks and hydrological monitoring and the installation of 200 new sensorized meteorological stations with an annual investment of 8.2 million.

Civil Civil Protection Plan Special Protection Plan (Procinar) last reviewed by the Gobierno de. Javier Lamban It will remain relevant in 2019. There are 210 municipalities and other cities. This catalog includes areas where avenues of 50, 100, or 500-year return periods would cause significant damage. Likewise, consider areas where 50-year avenues would affect isolated homes or cause significant damage to commercial or industrial facilities and essential services.

One of the efforts of the Instituto Aragonés del Agua (IAA) is aimed at supporting municipalities to meet their prevention obligations. en lo que corresponding to a riesgos de inundación. For this reason, since 2017, it has allocated more than half a million euros to finance the preparation of mandatory plans. It has allowed the passage of 15 to 45 municipalities in the last five years, and their list includes all the places most exposed to flooding in the Aragon section of the Ebro. In addition, there are eight stations that comply with the revised plan, pending the homologation process. Entre ellos, el de la capital turolense, que depende de la Confederación del Jucar.