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Tlaquepaque Launches Pumping Stations as SIAPA Nears Completion of Rainy-Season Maintenance

These works cap a preventive program that has cleared over 100,000 cubic meters of debris from more than 12,800 drains ahead of the season’s heaviest downpours

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Overview

  • SIAPA reports 93% progress on its Annual Preventive Program 2025, having serviced 11 siphons, 47 underpasses, 31 pumping stations and 12,869 storm drains (66% of its network).
  • Maintenance crews have removed 101,071 cubic meters of silt, vegetation and trash—equivalent to 14,439 seven-cubic-meter haul-truck loads—to keep pluvial channels clear.
  • On July 23, San Pedro Tlaquepaque inaugurated two automated pumping stations in Villa Fontana and Ojo de Agua with a 9.82 million-peso investment to preempt street and home inundations.
  • The municipality earmarked 8.1 million pesos to dredge Presa El Chicharrón, boosting reservoir capacity and protecting over 24,000 residents in high-risk neighborhoods.
  • Mayor Laura Imelda Pérez Segura publicly challenged SIAPA’s handling of the stormwater network, alleging mixed sewage and pluvial lines, missing drains and corrupt construction practices.