Haddad launches anti-flood package.
In his first meeting as mayor of São Paulo, the Workers' Party member signed a R$ 400 contract with the Technological Research Institute (IPT) of USP for the daily monitoring of risk areas and announced the restructuring of Civil Defense to deal with the flood season.
247 – The mayor of São Paulo, Fernando Haddad, has chosen combating flooding in the capital as one of the priorities at the start of his administration and announced 16 emergency measures to prevent problems resulting from the rains.
A contract will be signed with the Technological Research Institute (IPT) of USP for the daily monitoring of at-risk areas during the rainy season.
The partnership has been under discussion at City Hall for over a year, and the monitoring would cost R$ 400. IPT was the agency responsible for conducting a study on the capital's risk areas during Gilberto Kassab's (PSD) administration.
According to Haddad, there are four risk levels: R1, R2, R3, and R4, with the latter being the highest. Currently, 28 areas are at level R4, and, added to the areas at level R3, there would be about one hundred of the most delicate areas monitored by the IPT (Institute for Technological Research). In total, the city has 417 risk areas, and the others would be monitored by the sub-prefectures and by citizens trained by Civil Defense to observe signs of potential landslides and other problems, and alert the city hall about them.
The Workers' Party member also announced a restructuring of Civil Defense. In some sub-prefectures, this agency has only one professional, and the Emergency Management Center (CGE), which until now was located in the Secretariat of Urban Infrastructure and Works (Siurb), will be relocated to Civil Defense.