• The goal is to control floods and protect people and property in Lobios.

The Lobios river, as it passes through the capital of the same name, will have a real-time control and monitoring system for the riverbed’s hydrographic situation. Technicians from the Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation were supervising the new installation yesterday, called the Automatic Hydrological Information System (SAIH), the fifth of its kind to be installed in the region, after devices monitoring the flow in the Limia at several points from Ponteliñares, in Salas, and in Río Caldo, in Bubaces (Lobios).

Through the SAIH stations, “we obtain real-time information from our rivers, based on capturing, transmitting, and processing the values adopted by the most significant hydrometeorological and hydraulic variables,” explained José Antonio Quiroga, president of the Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation. He emphasized the importance of obtaining precise data “that assist in decision-making” and allow for the protection of people and property.

The station installed near the Plaza Roja in Lobios had a budget of 46,250 euros as part of the European project POCTEP RISC_PLUS to strengthen the resilience of the cross-border watersheds of the Miño and Limia rivers against climate change.

The Lobios project, in a testing phase for one month, joins those already carried out on