Everything as expected, a landslide predicted, a tragedy narrowly avoided: this isn't déjà vu. It's the reality of something we knew would happen.
In the night a Castellammare a part of the Varano hill collapsed. A loud roar woke up the residents of Viale delle Puglie, the road that leads from the city center to Gragnano and the upper neighborhoods.
The affected section is the one where they are excavating for the tunnel for the doubling of the Circumvesuviana in the Varano hill. For those who remember, phenomena of this kind occurred years ago when the tunnel was built. Now the technicians will have to understand if the subsidence is due to the work for the doubling of the Circum.
The firefighters, civil protection and local police arrived at the site of the landslide, cordoned off the area and contacted the various bodies that will have to check and secure the area.
Stop cars and motorcycles in the affected area in front of Inail, but if those arriving from Gragnano can continue along via Marconi, those getting off must instead find an alternative route and traffic is completely blocked.
No homes, people or things have been reported damaged, but the necessary checks have already been started tonight to establish whether the landslide may have dragged valuable archaeological finds down the valley, which are scattered all over the hill, being the site of the settlement of ancient Stabiae, with its ancient patrician villas covered by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, together with Pompeii and Herculaneum. The land is under archaeological constraint.
The works decided by Eav, the regional transport holding, for the doubling of the Circumvesuviana tunnel between the Via Nocera station and the Castellammare di Stabia station had recently sparked controversy. The project to double the existing tunnel was contested by the inhabitants of Castellammare di Stabia and local politicians.
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