📋 Tender Overview
The National Water Authority (ANA) reported that it held a meeting with the mayor of the town of Callanca, district of Monsefú, Aldo Rodríguez, in order to coordinate the joint actions that will be developed in the Ramo Los Custodios sector, after carrying out the field verification in the section where the affectation of a part of the bank in the Reque River was reported.
According to José Luis Ulloa, territorial coordinator of the ANA's Executing Unit No. 2, in charge of de-silting activities in the department of Lambayeque, this entity will reinforce the river's banks to prevent any overflow due to the rains in the north.
The objective of the coordination is to carry out the reinforcement of the area that ceded, in the shortest possible time and jointly with the local authority to give security and tranquility to the population settled in the areas surrounding the right bank of the Reque River. It also reports that, after verification, no type of impact on the population is reported in the area or in crop areas.
The ANA clarified that, according to D.U. No. 015-2023, it has carried out cleaning and desilting activities or removal of sand material and shrubs from the riverbed and not dike construction works that require longer execution time. The activities carried out on the rivers in the sectors assigned through the D.U. have made it possible to expand the riverbed so that the water has more space to move in the rainy season.
Finally, he explained that these activities were planned preventively within the framework of the emergency due to the El Niño phenomenon and in view of the short time of six months to carry out interventions.