- The San Martín de Valdeiglesias fire has reached the San Juan dam, without causing significant damage to the hydraulic infrastructure.
- The basin agency has increased the flow through the Alberche River as it passes through Ávila, Madrid and Toledo as a collaborative measure in the work of controlling and extinguishing the fires.
As a result of the active forest fire in the municipality of San Martín de Valdeiglesias, there has been a direct impact by the fire of the facilities of the San Juan Dam. The disaster has completely destroyed the dam’s management house.
This material loss and difficulty of access justify the declaration by the Tajo Hydrographic Confederation (CHT), an autonomous body attached to the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO), of Scenario 0 of emergency, according to the Emergency Plan of the San Juan Dam. Currently, the structural conditions of the dam are stable and under control, although the monitoring and control of the dam and hill dam is intensified, not requiring the implementation of other measures in accordance with current regulations on the safety of dams.
The affection for this infrastructure, facilities and annexed buildings has been mitigated in large part thanks to the forest fire prevention work carried out by the CHT in the area during the months of May and June.
The Tajo Hydrographic Confederation (CHT) increased yesterday afternoon/evening the flows through the Alberche River as it passed through Ávila, Madrid and Toledo through the increase of the unreservoirs from the dams of Burguillo (Ávila), San Juan and Picadas (Madrid) as a collaborative measure in the work of control and extinguishment of these fires.
After the declaration of the emergency of national interest in the territory of the Community of Madrid and in the province of Ávila (Castilla y León), as a consequence of the evolution of the forest fires declared in the municipal terms of Villa del Prado and San Martín de Valdeiglesias (Madrid) and Burgohondo (Ávila), all located in the Tagus basin, the Tajo Hydrographic Confederation (CHT) participates in the meetings of the Integrated Operational Coordination Centers (CECOPI) to which it is summoned and appeals to the civil population to follow the warnings.