With the destroyed garage and mud inside the house, this is how the house ended on passage 8 in the Lagos de Chile town of Concepción. It is located next to the hill and last week the landslide that caused the problem was recorded, commented María Isabel Riffo.
The situation worsened this week with heavy rains.
“It seems like a turbine effect that was throwing out dirt, dirt, and dirt. I was bringing down the hill, the entire roof down, because there was a garage there and everything went down.. Everything is almost uninhabitable (…) I had everything in good condition but the mud went through the kitchen, the hallway, the bathroom; The water reached the living room, the dining room,” María Isabel described.
On the hill and a few meters from the house locate an Essbio pond and that increases the concern of the neighbors, said Ana Montero, president of the neighborhood association. The rain will continue and They fear that a major emergency will be generatedgiven it is not the first time they have faced a situation like this.
“They have come from Essbio, they have done some mitigation measures in the house but it is not enough,” said the neighborhood leader.
He zonal deputy manager of the health company, Cristián Cepedaassured that the infrastructure is functioning normally, “also giving peace of mind about the stability of our pond, which we carry out permanent daily monitoring on topographic records.”
The residents of the Lagos town in Chile are on alert and concerned about the landslide, which has already caused damage to one of the homes.
