Neuquén declared a state of emergency due to rainfall

Omar Gutiérrez, governor of Neuquén, declared the province in a situation of Emergency and / or Water, Climatic, and Agricultural Disaster, for the term of 120 consecutive days, due to the extraordinary rains that were registered during the month of June. The phenomenon had a special impact on livestock, fodder production, fruit growing and horticulture.” During the month of June of this year, there has been one of the most serious storms occurred in the provincial territory in the last thirty years. The central and northern areas of the provincial territory have been the most affected by the rainfall, whose consequences produced significant floods of all the provincial bodies receiving water, “argued the provincial executive the decree that shaped the measure. The heavy rains caused flooding of surfaces and flooding of populations, as well as affectation of infrastructure works and communication routes, in addition to consequences of this type of events. The intense rains managed to accumulate in some sectors more than 200 millimeters of water in just 48 hours, leaving as a result extraordinary floods in the main rivers and streams and affecting places, roads, main canals and inlets belonging to the irrigation systems that involve several localities in the north of the province. The benefits provided for in Law 3117, of the Provincial System for the Prevention and Mitigation of Emergencies and / or Agrarian Disasters in Neuquén, include human or legal persons who own agricultural holdings that demonstrate damage before the enforcement authority that is the Ministry of Production and Industry.

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