There will be no official act to remember the anniversary, nor do the neighbors have special interest in recalling it. This Monday, a crisis that forced more than 1,000 neighbors (and president of the Generalitat Pasqual Maragall. At the place of the disaster, the rectangle that forms the passage of Calafell, Sigüenza street and Tremp Conca, the works of a public housing building that will look at a small place that twenty years later has no name are ending up. , although popularly it is “that of the undercut.” The sinking was an extra cost of 78 million euros.
In fact, the first notice that the ground staggered took place at night, on the 25th, when 12 families of the number 10 of the Calafell passage were evicted. “A landslide” on the maneuvering tunnel of the expansion of the L5 of the Metro on which initially GISA (the public company of public works was then called) did not see structural danger.
Hours later the Earth sank and, on a cold day that cut the skin, a thousand neighbors left in robe and pajamas to the street and began, 400 students gathered in schools in the area, realojos in hotels, building reviews to building, shops, shops Closed, political mess and successful claims of some affected who achieved aid and compensation that today would be unthinkable. As the 30,000 euros for moral damage for what happened. They were times before the burst of the brick crisis, the administration had money and the disaster had been his fault. Those who lost their homes were real More than 20 installed elevators.
Segmented the zero zone by circles of affectation, the technicians controlled the movements of the soil to the millimeter for months. The city familiar with the names of the streets of the neighborhood, with terminology such as “micropilotar”, “witnesses”, “maneuvering tail” or “moral damage” and attended the spill of cement in the sinkhole (30 meters in diameter and 32 deep), with trucks up to the day and night neighborhood. The then president of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero; There were live in situ programs (María Teresa Campos, for example) and several affected participated in Martian chronicles.
The sinking shook the tripartite and the City Council of Barcelona, and culminated in an investigation commission in the Parliament in which the execution of public works in Catalonia was questioned and the ghost of irregular payments in public contracts arose. The set of the operation to mitigate the damage to the neighborhood was an extra cost of 78 million euros for the project: 34 were placed by the Generalitat – six million insurers recovered – and 44 contractors, ”18 were remembered. The administration also had to face the payment of compensation of more than 10 million euros to those affected. Two later, 15,000 travelers use the Carmel Metro stop, from Line 5.
