San Miguel de Allende’s dams and water sources are beginning to recover.

Due to the rains that have been occurring in the last few days

Juan Alarcón | El Sol del Bajío
Published June 6, 2021 (sp)

With almost two weeks of intermittent but heavy rains, the Allende Dam has once again increased its water levels considerably, reaching 21% of its capacity to date, after being at a critical 14% of its capacity due to the prolonged drought that lasted from 2020 to mid 2021. It should be noted that although the storms have unleashed their force in the urban area, the effects have been minimal.

Few material losses have been caused by the rain since the beginning of the hurricane and cyclone season in the country, although in videos and photos you can see the rise of water running through the streets when the last storms have fallen, these do not form puddles and do not go beyond some clogged sewers that return to normal with the passing of a couple of hours, with the support of agencies such as SAPASMA and Public Works.

It should be noted that the muddy situations that have been generated in certain parts of the city where public works are being carried out in terms of street paving, have been addressed in a timely manner by the municipal authorities, to remove with machinery soil and debris that are inevitable to be washed away by rainwater.

In spite of the above, one of the great benefits brought by the arrival of the rains is the increase of water levels in the municipality’s dams and reservoirs. The director of Civil Protection, Josafat Enriquez, commented in an interview, “The Allende Dam is already beginning to have good numbers, although it still lacks enough water to supply the entire Bajio sector, but we hope that this rainy season will help to return the water to the dam. In our tours of the different reservoirs in the municipality we have detected that their levels have risen; however, they remain at less than 50% of their capacity, but this gives the communities some respite”.

Josafat Enriquez explained that these heavy rains were due to the arrival of hurricane Blanca, which later became a tropical storm in the Pacific Ocean, but its remnants have reached the center of the republic. The hurricane and cyclone rainy season ends on November 30 and this year more than 20 weather phenomena are expected on the Pacific side and another 20 on the Atlantic side, so it is expected to have a prompt recovery of the water bodies of San Miguel de Allende.

This weekend, punctual rains are forecast to continue, so the director of Civil Protection urged the population to be aware of the information that will be generated, “we must also maintain precautions with electricity, if there are things that we do not need to keep them connected at home, we must disconnect them to avoid power outages and of course do not throw garbage in the streets to avoid clogging the sewers”.