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SANCTI SPIRITUS. – The engineer Isabel Díaz suffered shocks to save the Lebrije dam after the endless showers of June 2002; he had worked in the Magistral Cbad and in the irrigation systems of Sur del Jíbaro; there was, what is called "fangueado", on the dikes of the shrimp farm and even on the terraces of the hotels of the peninsula of Ancón.
After graduating in the specialty of Viales, the head of Brigade 5 of the UEB Movimiento de Tierra, from the Ministry of Construction (Micons), had experienced these skirmishes and many others. throughout his 30 years of work in construction, but had not had the opportunity to stand under the railway bridge of Zaza del Medio to see for himself what the persistent strength of the Water is able to destroy.
"I never thought it was possible," he confessed to the press on June 7. a shortcut to reach the bases of the viaduct to strengthen the damaged structure, an essential step to regain the vitality of the bridge, also used by hundreds of neighbors as a round trip on the Zaza. 9659002] Ten days before in the river itself, the Paso Ventura station, located in the vicinity of El Saltadero, municipality of Cabaiguán, recorded an alluvium at noon of 16.77 meters high, which is among the most important place since the measuring system was installed in the main river of the second largest basin of the country.
The storm, badociated with the subtropical storm Alberto, will remain engraved in all Sancti Spíritus, but much more the inhabitants of the city of Zaza del Medio, which since then have quadrupled the distance to reach the provincial capital, a a route that travels daily to those who work in the city or who need their services.
United Nations INVENTORY LASTIMOSO
When the bridge linking Sancti Spíritus to Zaza del Medio was completed on July 24, 1984, the inhabitants of the region thought that they would have a job for life : between the two sides of the river a mbad of concrete and steel 175.92 meters long, at a maximum height of ten meters and with a structure divided into nine lights, which appeared more than Upstream, to a few meters away there is, since 1902, the irremovable and presumptuous railway bridge, which at first supported the circulation of the Central Railway then the branch Zaza del Medio-Sancti Spíritus. -Tunas de Zaza, and a little further down, a discreet viaduct built at the low water level which, according to the zaceños ironically, is swallowed by the large avenues that descend from Placetas and Cabaiguán, that the urine that a frog produced in Guaracabuya.
Of the three, the 1984 vehicle sank in pieces on May 28, when in the middle of the flood apparently a giant ceiba stung the central part, episode captured in a video that was made or viral in those days, and the railroad at the turn of the century ended up so damaged in one of its bases that it remains unlicensed until today.
But the inventory of evils does not stop in this community: a few kilometers higher, in the area of La Larga, the bridge of the Sancti Spíritus-Yaguajay road is also damaged. , where today the south path is only open, while minor damage was found on the national road (late 1980s) and on the central road, rebuilt in 1959 after being overthrown by rebel forces that took Sancti Spíritus. 19659002] THE WATER OR THE CEIBA?
The specialists are convinced that so much the fall of the vehicular pbad of Zaza del Medio and the failures produced to the Yaguajay road and the national highway were not caused by failures in the manufacture of respective works or by project errors.
A kilometer and a half from the central road, almost within the dam of Zaza, a fishing brigade of fishermen I just found the huge Ceiba that was presumably filmed in Zaza del Medio at the exact moment he struck the half-destroyed columns of the bridge. "1965-19002" "It looks like a sleeping dinosaur" says engineer Miguel Ángel Luna Castro, Provincial Director of Roads, describing the tree 15 meters long and 2.70 meters in diameter stranded on the # 39, one of the banks of the river, which he personally took care to photograph.
"The bridge Zaza del Medio was whole, they had Once the required inspections completed, there was nothing to think of a fracture," said AFP Alfredo Moreno Mendoza, the original designer of the project, already retired, for whom the collapse is not due to the volume of water above projected, but by the high-speed impact of the aforementioned tree, just in the point the most critical: the external column downstream.
Has more than 4.5 million pesos as the cost of damage from May rains to the province's road infrastructure, most of which is earmarked for the integral rehabilitation of the bridge system on the Zaza River, according to the calculations of the Provincial Center of Roads, which do not include the railway.
According to Luna Castro, the minor evils reported on the central route have already been solved; the national road is working on the repair of an approach and it is planned to consolidate a column, as on the road to Yaguajay, the latter site where a solution has also been planned that includes strengthening with metal beams.
Another flour is the recovery of the viaduct of Zaza del Medio, where experts have proposed, among other variants, to isolate the area where the work will be performed, so that it does not occur. is not necessary to lower the large volumes of water that are accumulating today the largest dam in the country, a filling that in the last example should be grateful also to the same flood of Macondiana that brought so many headaches in the area.
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