June 9 2024 – 1:04 p.m.
What happened?
Fear has caused the new sinkhole that early this Sunday forced the residents of the Euromarina 2 building in the upper sector of Reñaca, in the city of Viña del Mar, to evacuate.
A situation that has generated “uncertainty” among the habitats of the area and that the soil engineer and mechanic, Felipe Ochoaqualifies mainly as a failure of systems that should drain water from buildings.
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Water collector “main suspect”
The professional explained in Meganoticias Alert that the condition for sinkholes to occur is the presence of water, which generates pressures greater than what the ground can withstand, which is “which mainly generates instabilities in the soil masses“.
Ochoa said that the first hypotheses point to the water management infrastructure, where “the common factor that there is rain is repeated, the common factor is repeated that again in the area where the crack, the fault, is observed, coincides with the presence of water collectors“.
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According to the engineer, all of this “primarily raises the suspicion that there are elements in the water channeling and drainage systems that they could be presenting conditions that do not allow them to work optimally“.
Lack of maintenance on collectors?
Consulted by the journalist Maribel Retamalabout whether sinkholes occur then “maintenance problems“in the collectors, the engineer indicated that”It is clearly an element that must begin to be suspected“.
Ochoa explained that Maintenance is vital in this type of infrastructuresince they can easily be obstructed by vegetation or garbage, causing a malfunction that generates the accumulation of water that causes the ground to give way.
“The first thing is to check the health, and the health of the water collector systems, the drainage systems. And that also involves maintenance, engineering is not only the design and construction, but Next comes a maintenance and inspection stage that is very important.“, hill.
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