📋 Tender Overview
Emapica has logistical equipment and heavy machinery to deal with operational emergencies that may occur in this city as a result of the rains caused by the El Niño phenomenon.
Meanwhile, in the face of the fall of mudslides in the Ica River, the EPS activated its contingency plan in disaster risk prevention, in order to guarantee the drinking water service, after the supply of the filtering galleries was suspended due to the high levels of turbidity that exceed the permissible parameters.
It should be noted that the Ica service provider, under the temporary administration of the Technical Agency for the Administration of Sanitation Services (Otass), has added, to the five cisterns it uses for the distribution of drinking water, two hydrojets and bucket machines that provide effective care during emergencies in the sanitation system.
In addition, it has heavy machinery consisting of a front loader, a backhoe, a crane truck, combined self-propelled equipment, a skid steer loader, electric generators and two 8-inch motor pumps, which are used for the transfer of water in cases of flooding or flooding.
All these teams, as an anticipation strategy, have been transferred to the José Picasso Peratta stadium, in order to comply with their immediate and effective displacement in any crisis situation.
Response Actions
Emapica also implements a series of prevention actions in the face of the increase in the flow of the Ica River. The office of drinking water production and wastewater treatment immediately ordered the commissioning of six (6) tube wells to meet the demand in 9 of the 12 sectors supplied by the gallery system.
The general manager, Eng. Raúl Linares Manchego and his technical team, supervised the state of the sanitation infrastructure, located near critical points of the Ica River and which could be affected by a possible flood.
In view of this, sandbags are being placed to protect the equipment and reduce damage in the Torre Ugarte N°1 and N°2 wells in Manzanilla and in the San Jorge elevated reservoir, on Av. Siete.
Finally, the quality assurance office, with the support of the technical operators, carried out the cleaning of filters in the filter gallery system and the constant monitoring of the turbidity parameters, in order to restore the service in the shortest possible time.
