The Cause of the Slanic Street Damage, Announced by the Authorities After 5 Days. “Evacuate Blocks Can’t F

UPDATE at 20.55: “The collapse of a portion of 23 August Street in the town of Slanic, Prahova County is probably the effect of the action of the water that circulates through the basement below the asphalt layer and washes away the aggregate that supports it,” announced Prahova Prefecture, which cited the experts’ conclusions from the Preliminary Report.

The institution added that water can come from different sources, natural causes or the result of human actions on the environment:

• water from rainfall, shallow aquifers or runoff from slopes
• the water flowing in the valleys formed by the water circulation on the roof of the salt massif
• water from various anthropogenic sources, such as damage to city water pipes or sewage.

The authorities also stated that the landslide “is not due to seismic activity” and “does not appear to be caused by deep phenomena related to the presence of the salt massif”.

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Original news: The preliminary report drawn up after 5 days shows that the infiltration of water from the ground is the reason why the street 23 August in the town of Slănic in Prahove collapsed, stated on Tuesday, April 30, official sources for Libertatea.

“At the moment, we are facing subsidence phenomena that also affect the blocks. We don’t know how far they will advance, we don’t know if they were before the surprise or they appeared along the way, but the evacuated blocks cannot be repopulated at the moment”, said the prefect of Prahova, Emil Drăgănescu, at the end of the meeting of the County Committee for Emergency Situations.

More than 40 people were evacuated from the apartments of the blocks located near the affected area.

A part of 23 August street in the city of Slănic, Prahova county, collapsed on Thursday morning, April 25, and a video surveillance camera captured the moment.

Images of the damaged street, filmed on the day of the incident:

On Friday, the land in the area affected by the landslide subsided by another 20 centimeters, but over the weekend the subsidence stagnated.

The situation, electorally speculated before the local elections

Land grabbing was speculated at the highest level in Prahova politics, being the reason for a dispute between PSD Prahova and PNL Prahova, less than two months before the local elections. The politicians accused each other, using words such as “incompetence”, “lack of decency”, “bad will”, lack of involvement”, “chasing for money and votes”, reported news.ro.

The main characters are the candidates of the two parties for the leadership of the Prahova County Council: Iulian Dumitrescu (PNL), accused of corruption and suspended from office, and Virgiliu Nanu (PSD), former prefect, accused of knowing about the situation in Slănic and did nothing for locals.

PSD Prahova claimed that “Iulian Dumitrescu’s mafia group” is “directly responsible for the tragedy in Slănic”. The liberal said that the accusations are “absurd” and that “PSD is trying to prevent the completion of the gas supply to the towns on Valea Slănicului”.

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