The Municipality of Puerto Vallarta is starting to carry out cleaning and desilting tasks in rivers, streams, and canals in order to avoid floods during the rainy season and tropical cyclones, which could put life and property at risk.
The director of Public Works, Elihú Sánchez Rodríguez, announced that the
desilting program is especially difficult this year because there was a great drag of materials in the riverbeds last year.
So far, 18,194 cubic meters of material have been removed. Work has been completed on the Los Tules vein between the streets of Vienna and Río Amarillo, the channel that runs parallel to the Luis Donaldo Colosio Bypass, the Santa María stream, the Federation channel, the Linda Vista stream in the Cristóbal
Colón neighborhood, and the canal in the Sendero de Luna neighborhood, from which 9,570 cubic meters of material were extracted.
Work continues on the La Virgen and El Contentillo streams in El Pitillal, with progress of up to 75%, in the El Zarco and El Colorado streams in the rural area, the channel that runs parallel to Av. México in the eastern part of the El Salado estuaryfrom Mangle to Palmas, the channel parallel to Av. Universidad at the University Center of the Coast, and the Pitillal River, from which 2,500 cubic meters of material have already been removed.
Added to this are the tasks of improving accesses and roads, and leveling the ground in high areas, as well as clearing the storm drain in Las Juntas, and the construction of the retaining wall of the Cuale Island, which will reinforce protection against rising rivers during the storm.