It is extensively recognized that the land across the Guidelines Reservoir is unstable; one have a look at the N-323a, underneath fixed restore, is an efficient indication of it.
We did an article in 2021 concerning the hazard of a landslip right into a full reservoir, which might be a catastrophe alongside the traces of Vajont in Italy in 1963, however a full reservoir shouldn’t be one thing that we have now to fret about in the meanwhile, is it?
The truth that there may be so little water in Guidelines is definitely inflicting issues in itself regarding the structural integrity of the construction, the place the autovía goes over the Órgiva arm of the reservoir. The higher the amount of water; the higher the assist to the encircling hillside – should you take away the assist of the water…
Readers would possibly keep in mind an article we ran about once they constructed that bridge, or viaduct, it started to sink, so that they needed to shut the street, empty the reservoir sufficient to get on the base of the pillars and put an additional one in to right it.
The factor is that the Board of Ministers (Cupboard) issued a Declaration of Emergency with a view to launch funds to place proper the deficiencies that at the moment are cropping up beneath the bridge.
The Minister for Transport defined that in one of many periodic inspections that his division carries out on roads, bridges and tunnels, they discovered that the fourth supporting pillar was broken due to earth actions, or as he put it, “owing to the structural and lithological traits” of the land under it.
Earth-moving tools has already moved in in order that the pillar can finally be strengthened, which can price about 9.5m euros. The muse of the pillar might be strengthened with 50-metre-wide piles that can go down 1.5 metres – no, we haven’t acquired the improper method spherical.
This work mustn’t have an effect on visitors circulation until issues get sophisticated. It can be extra inconvenient if they’ve to empty the already low water degree within the reservoir.
(Information/Noticas: Velez de Benaudalla, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)
