A declaration of emergency has been sent by the Governor to the Ministry of the Interior including over 350 million pesos of damage in 18 municipalities of Jalisco.
The damage caused by the rains from the passage of “Nora,” mostly in coastal areas and in the Western Highlands region, well exceed the capacity of the State Fund for natural disasters.
"We are quantifying the damages in a preliminary way at 350 million pesos and to that we would still have to add other concepts such as damages to businesses in these municipalities, but 350 million pesos is a figure that exceeds the response capacity of the State government and of course of the municipalities that do not have a single peso,” Governor Enrique Alfaro Ramírez pointed out.
He added that the subsidy for damages that different natural disasters have left in recent months has been done without the help of the Federation, however, he explained that the effects of Nora exceed the financial capacity to meet the needs of citizens, their homes, shops, crops, and communication routes.
The municipalities established in the document are: Puerto Vallarta, Cabo Corrientes, Tomatlán, La Huerta, Cihuatlán, Autlán de Navarro, Casimiro Castillo, El Grullo, Talpa de Allende, Cuautitlán de García Barragán, Mascota, San Gabriel, Teocuitatlán de Corona , Santa María del Oro, Atoyac, Atenguillo, Villa Purificación, and Mixtlán.
The Governor visited Puerto Vallarta this Thursday in an evaluation tour of some of the areas that were affected and to attend to the requests of the victims, reiterating that the municipalities will not be left alone. It was in Puerto Vallarta where he specified that in the next two weeks he will be supported with resources from the State Fund for Natural Disasters (FOEDEN.) It is estimated that the damages registered would require an investment of around 200 million pesos necessary for its repair.
To this will be added other resources that would be used for the rehabilitation work of the Cuale market, and for the delivery of support to the nearly 300 businesses and the 100 homes that suffered some type of damage, as well as some schools that could be affected.
Governor Alfaro stated that of the 200 million pesos estimated for infrastructure, about 134 million pesos will correspond to his government for the arrangement of roads, vehicular and pedestrian bridges and other infrastructure, and the municipality through Seapal Vallarta, will be allocating around 66 million to recover the drinking water distribution infrastructure that was damaged. Likewise, the different bridges will be reviewed and risk assessments will be made of some buildings that are close to the Cuale River to rule out possible risks.
The first mayor, Jorge Quintero, thanked the prompt response and attention that Puerto Vallarta is receiving from the state, and the teamwork that has been developed for the benefit of the population.
Among the points visited by the state president and the mayor of Puerto Vallarta, is Manantial Street, which due to the rising of the Cuale River, collapsed in one of its lanes, thus affecting the entrance to the Buenos Aires neighborhood and more than ten rural communities, so that this route would be requiring an investment of around 49 million pesos. Subsequently, they toured Winter Street, which will be recovering, as well as the area of the old Cuale bridge, demolished by the current of the overflowing river, where work is already being carried out for its demolition.
Later, the authorities toured the municipal market of Cuale, where the Governor indicated that the diagnosis of this space is being carried out to find out if there is any structural affectation and to be able to start the necessary work, in addition to announcing that it will be financially supporting the tenants to recover everything they lost, so an inventory will be made and in two more weeks, the checks will be delivered to each of them.
“We are going to continue working without pretexts to help people recover what they lost, to rebuild the infrastructure that was damaged. We are aware that it is a priority task and of course we will have to make budget adjustments to be able to allocate resources from other sides to attend to this, which is truly an emergency,” he ratified.
The dependencies of Civil Protection of the State, the Secretariat of the Social Assistance System (SSAS), the Secretariat of Infrastructure and Public Works (SIOP) and other secretariats continue in the regions working to assist the population and continue the quantification left by the hurricane Nora.