The rains in the central area of the country once again generated serious consequences in the Valparaíso region. One of them was a sinkhole on the side of a tower of the Euromarina II building, in the Reñaca areain the commune of Viña del Mar. This ended with the preventive evacuation of 110 apartments that were occupied on the 21 floors of the building.
And to the above we must add that the Chilean Meteorological Directorate (DMC) has predicted the arrival of a new frontal system for Wednesday night and that it would extend until Thursday, causing rain to fall of over 100mm.
Asked about the specific situation of the Euromarina II, the mayor of Viña del Mar, Macarena Ripamontimaintained that everything indicates that the building uninhabitabilitybecause “it is more critical than what we saw before,” when the sinkholes occurred in the same sector in the Kandinsky and Miramar buildings.
In conversation with radio Infinita, Ripamonti pointed out that the Euromarina II sinkhole “goes through the building, it is not that it surrounds it, it is underneath (…) it is more critical than what we saw before.” And along those lines, he added: “All the (preliminary) information, the approximations that Serviu and also Sernageomin have raised, we have to send to the DOM (Municipal Works Directorate) and It is likely that a decree of uninhabitability will be issued and people will not be able to stay there”.
He then assured that “there is a permanent risk to people’s lives, On the first and second floor the windows were broken by the sand who entered their apartments.”
Asked about a medium or long-term solution, the community leader said “there must be a preventive attitude and the maintenance of the secondary collectors must be very well verified,” so “it is essential that we make a decision not by looking at our navel, but with a vision of the future, since in the medium term it ends up being a problem, because Every year the rains are going to be more aggressive and that will generate collapses everywhere.”
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