Paula Zapperi and her thesis that warned about flooding in Bahía Blanca

The city of Bahía Blanca is located in the lower basin of the Maldonado canal and the Napostá stream. This location results in the rapid accumulation of water in the face of intense rains, aggravated by a geography that carries sediments to the lower areas, blocking the drainages, with a disordered and dispersed urban expansion that reduced natural spaces of absorption and runoff towards the sea. This information, which included identification o…

CNN Radio Argentina (CNN Radio Argentina) – Paula Andrea Zapperi, a CONICET researcher, spoke with CNN Radio on Monday about the situation in Bahía Blanca and her doctoral thesis, which focused on the relationship between society and nature. On CNN Regreso with Mariana Arias and Pepe Gil Vidal, Zapperi explained that Bahía Blanca is located in the lower basin of the Napostá stream, just five kilometers from a coastal and wetland area, the Bahía …

The researcher of CONICET and Ph.D. in Geography, Paula Zapperi spoke with FM De la Calle de Bahía Blanca following a study published in 2012 analyzed how the urban modifications affected the natural conditions of water draining in the city.After the recent floods that affected more than 70% of the population and left at the moment 16 dead and about 100 missing, this study was branded as a foresight.What the researcher says regarding the evoluti…

Currently, there are two patients hospitalized at the Viedma nosocomium.The entrance The Zatti Hospital in Viedma receives patients derived from Bahía Blanca was first published in News of Río Negro and Neuquén.

"My thesis what I was trying to indicate is that the characteristics of the city made her vulnerable to such a fact. What I suggested was not on the side of hydraulic works, but of measures more related to urban planning, taking into account the drainage of water, green surfaces," explained Paula Zapperi, PhD in Geography and researcher at the Conicet, whose 2012 thesis warned that Bahía Blanca was a vulnerable city for a flood event.

The images of Bahía Blanca submerged under the water raised a disturbing question: Could something similar happen in Neuquén? The answer of the engineer Elias Sapag is blunt: "Yes, and we are not prepared." The specialist, former representative of Neuquén at the Interjurisdictional Authority of Cuencas (AIC), warned that the province faces a high risk of devastating flooding due to the lack of adequate infrastructure. Sapag recalled that the reg…