In the first Risk Management Plan prepared by the Cabildo de Tenerife, in the municipality of Santa Cruz there were six points susceptible to being flooded, three due to waves or tides and another three due to rain. In the second document, which is about to be definitively approved for the 2021-2027 period, after the Government of the Canary Islands has approved and published its environmental impact, two new coastal areas have been added, one in Los Pocitos, on the coast of Añaza, and another in La Resbalada, in Hoya Fría. In this way, of the 35 coastal flood risk points identified by the Tenerife Island Water Council (CIATF) on the Island, 15% are located in the capital, that is, it is the municipality with the highest risk on the Island. , by accumulating more points (5) than the rest of the locations.
Regarding the risk of flooding from rain, the points are located in three ravines, which are Bufadero, Santos and Hierro. Thus, of the eight river flooding points identified by the CIATF, Santa Cruz once again accumulates the highest number, which represents 37% of the risk of flooding due to rain, once again the highest in Tenerife.
The sum of these eight points leaves the capital as the municipality with the highest risk of flooding.
The risk points located on the coast of Santa Cruz are located in Lomito del Llano-Casas de Abajo (Igueste de San Andrés), which maintains its risk level; San Andrés-Barranco de Las Huertas, which reduced its index after the construction of the dam; Roque de las Bodegas, which has seen it expanded to include urban areas, and the aforementioned La Resbalada and Los Pocitos, which are incorporated into this second Risk Management Plan, which is linked to the third Tenerife Hydrological Plan , in which the states of the water masses of the Island and the protected areas of the Hydrographic Demarcation are analyzed.
last ten years
The document, whose environmental impact was published yesterday in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands (BOC), also analyzes the floods suffered in different parts of the Island in the last ten years, and again, Santa Cruz tops the list. In this case, it is verified that, in the last decade, if it is taken into account that in 2018 and 2019 there were no significant floods, more than 200 events related to this type of phenomenon have been registered in the capital of Tenerife. This number of incidents represented a cost of more than 4.4 million euros, a figure that corresponds to the payments made by the CCS, although the damage to the city was much higher.
These data provided by the Cabildo through both plans corroborate, in turn, those collected by the Special Plan for Civil Protection and Emergency Attention due to Flood Risk of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands (Peinca), in which Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the town with the highest risk in the entire province and makes it the second municipality in the Canary Islands with that level of risk.
