On the radio program, Ángel Perú, a resident of the San Pedro neighborhood, spoke about the danger of flooding due to the shutdown of the company and the lack of hydraulic works in the Don Mario stream.
Tomás Modini
@ModiniTomas
At the beginning of the interview, Ángel Perú shared: “What ACUMAR had been doing were clean-ups, basically cleaning. We had a flood between 2013 and 2014 when the large pipes were being installed. One day, for reasons unknown to us, a truck came and took them away. After that, ACUMAR continued cleaning, but in December 2023, they stopped everything, and in March of this year, we had one of the worst floods, which even surpassed the previous one, with a meter and a half of water inside our homes.”
“It surpassed the previous one, which was due to a weather event. We lost everything, and we still haven’t recovered because our economy is difficult. We need to buy washing machines and many other things we lost. We’re not asking for handouts, but for the works that should be done so that we don’t have to keep complaining and losing things we worked hard to buy,” he added.
Regarding the experience of that unfortunate event, he recalled, “I woke up that day at 5 in the morning because it was raining very heavily. We stayed in the backyard because we know the area well and we know how it works. Then we went to lie down, and when I laid down, I looked and the water was already entering, surpassing the bed. I woke up in a lagoon inside my house; there was no time for anything.”
The Little Support from Authorities
The interviewee then highlighted the lack of assistance they received: “We didn’t receive anything from the national or provincial government. We organized ourselves because after the flood, everything was devastated, so we supported each other as neighbors. Only one person listened to us because it seems like we don’t belong to La Matanza yet.”
“When we went to complain, they mistreated us, they said all kinds of things, and the councilor Natalia Hernández from the Left Front was the one who helped us get mattresses and the things we needed because we didn’t know what to do,” he explained.
He also pointed out, “It was a very rainy day, and there were people who had to sleep with scabies, parents with babies, elderly people sick with dengue, with damp sheets because they couldn’t dry them. Nobody came to ask anything; we organized ourselves because otherwise, no one would have helped.”
The Lack of Work by ACUMAR
In closing, the San Pedro neighborhood resident shared: “In my house, we lost the washing machine. Luckily, the refrigerator wasn’t lost because we were able to fix it, but we still don’t have a washing machine. Everything else is raised, like the TVs and things like that, because we already know the area. When the water rises, we know it rises a lot. The water reached places it hadn’t before. For example, my block didn’t used to flood completely, but that day, it did.”
“The workers came in April or May and told us that they were only coming to fulfill their hours because they didn’t have the tools to work. Before, they would go into the stream, remove trash, and cut the grass on the sides with machines. They did a pretty good job, two times a week, but that started to be cut back over time,” he added.
He concluded by saying, “The good work they did has unfortunately decreased, and then they left because their wages were cut, and they stopped working since December.”
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