Brava: Community of Fajã d´Água completely isolated after another landslide that cut the road
The community of Fajã d´Água was completely isolated today after a new landslide that cut, this afternoon, the only access route to the locality.
The community of Fajã d´Água was completely isolated today after a new landslide that cut, this afternoon, the only access route to the locality.
To Inforpress, Sónia Baptista, a resident of the locality, said that around 17:00, the community of Fajã d´Água experienced “moments of distress” with the collapse of a part of the rock that, in turn, also broke a section road and left the area completely isolated.
According to the same source, last week there was a landslide and the community called for urgent intervention by the Government, but still without “no response” and that today the community was completely isolated.
Contacted, the mayor of Brava, Francisco Tavares, acknowledged that the situation "is serious", stressing that the community "will be isolated for a few months".
It is that, according to the mayor, at the moment he is already in contact with the National Civil Protection Service, but the indication is that, at least in the next few hours and days, the population will remain calm and stay further and further away from the site until certifying that there will be no more crashes.
For Monday, 23rd, Francisco Tavares informed that he will continue with contacts with the National Civil Protection Service, but also with the Institute of Roads and the Ministry of Infrastructures to see what steps will be taken.
“It will be a necessary intervention, but one that involves a very significant allocation of funds, and which first implies engineering work to see the consistency that exists to build a new road”, advanced the mayor, stressing that the estimate at this moment is that at least 50 thousand escudos will be needed for the reconstruction of the track, also raising the possibility that it will be necessary to study alternatives.
The road has always been a reason for complaints from residents, but also from visitors and drivers, who always clamored for interventions in the background, since this road always happens to fall rocks.
