Source: El Comercio Peru Date: 31 May 2010
Lack of cohesive working between authorities is one reason
By Gabriela Machuca C
Special Envoy Huaraz Cathedral stands incomplete in a corner of the Plaza de Armas of the city. Do not get parishioners from Sunday May 31, 1970, when an earthquake measuring 7.8 degrees on the Richter scale brought down close to 70% of the capital and much of Ancash north. View it should be for the unfinished Huaracino for which is authority and for which a citizen, a great reminder of the worst tragedy that happened in the history of the city. It wants not happen again. But it is not.
If this happens, if people remember, for example, earthquake that killed 10,000 people there today, exactly 40 years later, the city would have a comprehensive prevention plan that would address as it should be an earthquake or a alluvium. Unfortunately, Huaraz memory is fragile, and so, now, is not ready to face him effectively to a major emergency. How
perceived that a lack of memory? First, walking around the city.
sprawl
According to experts, Huaraz should not have buildings over three stories, because their soil has very high water table, causing that this is much more to shake the occurrence an earthquake. However, now we can see buildings of up to eight stories.
When asked about the issue, the provincial mayor, Lombardo Mautino, said: "There are no limits if the structure is well done. This year we will renew the urban development plan, which is what governs this issue (now allows up four stories) and architects determine whether they can build higher. There may be buildings over 10 floors if there is a good foundation. "
Further evidence of the lack of foresight in urban growth is the urbanization of the river Quilcay, which crosses part of the city.
A Miluska say Ordonez, promoter of the NGO ITDG Practical Action in case of accidental overflow Palcacocha Lake, located about 37 kilometers east of Huaraz, the river would be the first devastated Quilcay. Something similar would happen in taclla sector named in the district of Huaraz. It should be noted that this gap already desembalsando in 1941 and buried the third capital of the Ancash. At present, contains 17 million cubic meters of water. Its maximum capacity is 3 million.
should not have people on the banks of Quilcay, but today some 5,500 families living there. According Mautino, in 2007, the district presented the regional government reforestation project and relocation of 500 families who live almost in the same bed of the river, but so far not responded.
"It is difficult to relocate those in the vulnerable zone. The thing to avoid is the flood and for that we must strengthen the levees Palcacocha. We have asked the Central Government's S/.10 million needed for works, " said the mayor. MANAGEMENT
Dismantle
But you have forgotten the tragic consequences of natural disasters and the importance of prevention is most evident when talking to those who have power of decision.
In Huaraz, the main entities that have interference with the issue of prevention are not working together. These are the Civil Defense Regional Committee and the provincial municipality of Huaraz.
"We're divorced. The regional government is too distant from local governments. There we met with the committee since 2007. We do not have convened the following years," said Mautino, contradicting the statement by Roberto Méndez, assistant manager of Civil Defense regional Ancash, who said that has always been invited to attend meetings of all public and private entities that are part of the committee.
For the latter, however, it is outrageous how little interest the community has in making training courses in civil defense. Germain
Velasco, regional director of Indeci in Ancash, believes the problem is more general. "Lack of organization and concern by all authorities. The implementation of a disaster early warning (to which Huaraz not count), for example, also depends on local governments," he says.
While each entity works separately from the other, people do not receive preventive information. The provincial municipality claims that a year divided between 5,000 and 10,000 educational pamphlets in the city. In the city 100,000 inhabitants.
The Civil Defense Regional Committee says it also makes posters and workshops, however the people on the street does not know where to go in case of an earthquake or flood. However
. Not all the responsibility lies with the regional and local officials. Nelly Figueroa, coordinator of the Roundtable for Poverty Reduction, says that this entity has a difficult task to encourage citizens to propose projects for prevention, for example, participatory budgeting. "Unfortunately we have no good answer. A civil society is more interested in infrastructure projects. The population participates very little in this issue."
THE NUMBER
68,000 people died throughout the Ancash region, following the earthquake in 1970. There were 150,000 injuries.
Lack of cohesive working between authorities is one reason
By Gabriela Machuca C
Special Envoy Huaraz Cathedral stands incomplete in a corner of the Plaza de Armas of the city. Do not get parishioners from Sunday May 31, 1970, when an earthquake measuring 7.8 degrees on the Richter scale brought down close to 70% of the capital and much of Ancash north. View it should be for the unfinished Huaracino for which is authority and for which a citizen, a great reminder of the worst tragedy that happened in the history of the city. It wants not happen again. But it is not.
If this happens, if people remember, for example, earthquake that killed 10,000 people there today, exactly 40 years later, the city would have a comprehensive prevention plan that would address as it should be an earthquake or a alluvium. Unfortunately, Huaraz memory is fragile, and so, now, is not ready to face him effectively to a major emergency. How
perceived that a lack of memory? First, walking around the city.
sprawl
According to experts, Huaraz should not have buildings over three stories, because their soil has very high water table, causing that this is much more to shake the occurrence an earthquake. However, now we can see buildings of up to eight stories.
When asked about the issue, the provincial mayor, Lombardo Mautino, said: "There are no limits if the structure is well done. This year we will renew the urban development plan, which is what governs this issue (now allows up four stories) and architects determine whether they can build higher. There may be buildings over 10 floors if there is a good foundation. "
Further evidence of the lack of foresight in urban growth is the urbanization of the river Quilcay, which crosses part of the city.
A Miluska say Ordonez, promoter of the NGO ITDG Practical Action in case of accidental overflow Palcacocha Lake, located about 37 kilometers east of Huaraz, the river would be the first devastated Quilcay. Something similar would happen in taclla sector named in the district of Huaraz. It should be noted that this gap already desembalsando in 1941 and buried the third capital of the Ancash. At present, contains 17 million cubic meters of water. Its maximum capacity is 3 million.
should not have people on the banks of Quilcay, but today some 5,500 families living there. According Mautino, in 2007, the district presented the regional government reforestation project and relocation of 500 families who live almost in the same bed of the river, but so far not responded.
"It is difficult to relocate those in the vulnerable zone. The thing to avoid is the flood and for that we must strengthen the levees Palcacocha. We have asked the Central Government's S/.10 million needed for works, " said the mayor. MANAGEMENT
Dismantle
But you have forgotten the tragic consequences of natural disasters and the importance of prevention is most evident when talking to those who have power of decision.
In Huaraz, the main entities that have interference with the issue of prevention are not working together. These are the Civil Defense Regional Committee and the provincial municipality of Huaraz.
"We're divorced. The regional government is too distant from local governments. There we met with the committee since 2007. We do not have convened the following years," said Mautino, contradicting the statement by Roberto Méndez, assistant manager of Civil Defense regional Ancash, who said that has always been invited to attend meetings of all public and private entities that are part of the committee.
For the latter, however, it is outrageous how little interest the community has in making training courses in civil defense. Germain
Velasco, regional director of Indeci in Ancash, believes the problem is more general. "Lack of organization and concern by all authorities. The implementation of a disaster early warning (to which Huaraz not count), for example, also depends on local governments," he says.
While each entity works separately from the other, people do not receive preventive information. The provincial municipality claims that a year divided between 5,000 and 10,000 educational pamphlets in the city. In the city 100,000 inhabitants.
The Civil Defense Regional Committee says it also makes posters and workshops, however the people on the street does not know where to go in case of an earthquake or flood. However
. Not all the responsibility lies with the regional and local officials. Nelly Figueroa, coordinator of the Roundtable for Poverty Reduction, says that this entity has a difficult task to encourage citizens to propose projects for prevention, for example, participatory budgeting. "Unfortunately we have no good answer. A civil society is more interested in infrastructure projects. The population participates very little in this issue."
THE NUMBER
68,000 people died throughout the Ancash region, following the earthquake in 1970. There were 150,000 injuries.
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