Akrapovic Posted June 14, 2019 Posted June 14, 2019 The Unit for Risk Management ensured that the department no longer has the economic capacity to handle the emergency. This Thursday, the department of Cundinamarca declared the public calamity at kilometer 58 of the road to the Llano after evaluating the terrible state in which this section is located and the urgent need for a comprehensive intervention. According to Germán Ribero, director of the Special Administrative Unit for Disaster Risk Management of Cundinamarca, the department no longer has the economic capacity to continue attending the emergency. (Read: Announce economic and social measures for crisis in via Llano) "The declaration of public calamity decreed by the department of Cundinamarca for five months, allows the Nation to allocate resources for the investments required to stabilize the Mesa Grande, located 200 meters from the urban center of Guayabetal," said Ribero. Since Monday the situation of the Bogota-Villavicencio road has been complicated due to heavy rains and landslides that have occurred on the road. (Read: Closures continue on the road to Llano) In the last few hours, Coviandes and the authorities participating in the Boquerón Command Post reported that the heavy rains recorded on Thursday caused new landslides at kilometer 58 + 00 and at kilometer 64 + 200 where the two lanes were affected again with soil , stone and mud. "We continue with cleaning work at kilometer 64, at this moment we have a lane enabled and we continue with the cleaning of the site to leave the two lanes enabled in that area. While kilometer 58, due to the safety conditions in the area, there is no authorization from the command post to enter machinery after the landslide that occurred in the morning today and others that have arisen during the the afternoon. At this moment the monitoring of the zone continues, "said Fernando Castillo, Coviandes Operations Director.
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