Africa-Press – Cape verde. The community of Fajã d ́Água, on Brava Island, was completely isolated after a new landslide that cut off, this Saturday afternoon, the only access route to the locality. Isolation can last for months, according to the forecast of the local authority.
The incident happened around 5 pm, when the community experienced “moments of distress”, with the collapse of a rock that broke into a section of the road and left the area completely isolated, as told, to Inforpress, the address Sónia Baptista.
According to the same source, last week there was a first landslide and the community called for urgent intervention by the Government, but still no “no response”.
serious situation
The mayor of Brava, Francisco Tavares, acknowledged that the situation “is serious”, admitting that the community “will be isolated for a few months”.
It is that, according to the mayor, at the moment he is already in contact with the National Civil Protection Service, but the indication is that at least in the next few hours and days, the population will remain calm and stay further and further away from the site until certifying that there will be no more crashes.
For Monday, 23rd, Francisco Tavares informed that he will continue with contacts with the National Civil Protection Service, but also with the Institute of Roads and the Ministry of Infrastructures to see what steps will be taken.
50 thousand contos for new road
“It will be a necessary intervention, but one that involves a very significant allocation of funds, and which first implies engineering work to see the consistency that exists to build a new road”, advanced the mayor, stressing that the estimate at this moment is that at least 50 million escudos will be needed for the reconstruction of the track, also raising the possibility that it will be necessary to study alternatives.
It should be remembered that the road has always been a reason for complaints from residents, but also from visitors and drivers, who always clamored for interventions in the background, since stones always fall on this road.
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