Poggioreale Collapse, Muscarà: “Naples cannot afford any more excavations, everything risks collapsing.” The regional councilor: “Risk assessment document requested from administration”
“Whoever tries to hide the responsibility of the subway excavations that caused collapses in Chiaia and Poggioreale, could be acting in bad faith“, declares councilor Maria Muscarà.
And then she adds: “The subway works have created significant inconveniences for the city. The famous collapse of the building on Riviera Chiaia is now certified. Even the judiciary is starting to intervene. Naples is a porous city and over the millennia the tuff quarries have emptied it even more, for this reason public works are impracticable, emptying the subsoil, the risk of causing collapses and consequent serious hydrogeological instability is very high; furthermore we are talking about kilometers of city not a localized point.
It is therefore necessary to investigate these works and for this reason I ask, on the basis of the scientific information of the geologist Riccardo Caniparoli and the historical research of the Portosalvo Committee, to take into account the historiographical analyses of the places and of the "risk assessment document", that the municipal administration certainly must have for the excavations of the subway. The silence of the mayor Manfredi and the technician Cosenza is worrying.
Few people know that the ancient "Cotoniere Meridionali" were abandoned in the places of the last collapses, due to the high fragility of that territory, already compromised by an ancient tunnel built in the Bourbon era and then closed, through which even the Naples-Foggia railway line was supposed to pass. – continues the councilor – evidently the Bourbons knew how far they could go, today they don't! The new collapse is not far from the previous one and in any case the excavation of the tunnel intercepted the water table and the artesian one on which the cemetery rests, according to Dr. Caniparoli. Today we think we have become omnipotent with technology, but sooner or later the earth responds. Naples can no longer afford further excavations”.
Article published on 20 October 2022 - 14:58
