Chisinau city hall estimates damages caused by last days' rains

Chisinau, 30 June /MOLDPRES/ - Consequences of the heavy rains, measures of improving the emerged situation and the compensation of damages of people hit by the calamity were the main issues discussed at an emergency meeting summoned by the Chisinau city hall today.    

According to the Moldovan capital’s deputy mayor, Nistor Grozavu, 25 flats and four houses from Chisinau were flooded in the wake of the last days’ rains. “The flooded streets Mesterul Manole, Uzinelor, Albisoara, Calea Iesilor, Muncesti highway, etc., have been worst hit,” Grozavu said.    

The deputy mayor noted that many of the problems appearing in the city when it is raining might be avoided, if the Bic river was cleaned. Grozavu informed that there was a project to this effect, but it is too costly (about 43 million lei) and the city hall cannot afford carrying it out in a budgetary year.

For his part, the head of the Exdrupo administration, Adrian Boldurescu, reported that the subdivision’s employees on the last days had intervened also at night, especially to clean sewer manholes. “Twenty eight special vehicles and over 100 workers were involved, who continue working,” Boldurescu said.   

The Chisinau acting mayor, Ruslan Codreanu, said that residents would receive compensations with sources of the reserve fund. “This was not a calamity; this was just a rain which shows how prepared the city is. We know everything, we know where the problems are, but we do nothing. Let us look into the future and prevent things in time. The fire is easier to be prevented than to be extinguished,” Codreanu stressed. The acting mayor instructed that, till 3 July, the heads of the subdivisions present solutions to prevent the problems discussed.        

The Yellow Code of atmospheric instability, announced by the State Hydrometeorological Service, remains in force today. According to meteorologists, this means that more dangerous phenomena are expected all over Moldova, such as: thunderstorm rains, heavy in places (15-25 litres/square metre in 12 hours and less) with hail and wind gusting up to 15-20 metres/second.

(Reporter L. Grubii, editor A. Raileanu)