Why did Karaiskaki Square, which is located directly under a stream, not experience the slightest problem from the natural disaster? The answer is given in an informative post, the Mayor of Glyfada George Papanikolaou, who says the following:
“As I committed from the first moment, the information about the recent severe weather in Glyfada and its effects will be constant and our effort to change and correct what passes from our hand, daily.
I answer the following questions of our fellow citizens who even know what happened in the past:
👉 Why Karaiskaki Square in Terpsithea, which is located just below a stream, did not face the slightest problem from the natural disaster;
👉 Why the New Cemetery of Glyfada, at the foot of Ymittos, remained unscathed;
The answer is in the pictures you see.
A prerequisite for the permitting and construction of our new city cemetery was the plumbing studies. Which we prepared and certainly implemented.
- We opened the ravine according to the maps of the area.
- We created a modern receptor at the end of the ravine.
- We connected this “head” with a large flat-roofed pipeline to the flood control network we constructed in Terpsithea (from Dodecaneseou to Konstantinos Athanatos).
The project worked exemplarily at the time of the great crisis:
The gully was “downloading” tons of water, mud and stones, but they never reached Karaiskaki Square and Terpsithea.
What is also worth noting is that this project encountered enormous procedural difficulties in getting it done because it was in an off-plan area.
We have succeeded thanks to the decisive contribution of the Air Force – we thank from the bottom of our hearts again the members of the Air Force – which gave us the land for the construction of the new cemetery from the ETIM camp.
Similar interventions are our guide for the future.
Our goal is one:
To “collect” water and debris high above the city, before it reaches the urban fabric.
The issue is the huge resources – millions of euros – needed to build such projects, but also the necessary permits to be granted, without obstacles and unnecessary bureaucracy.
We have already been in contact with the relevant bodies and services.
But I will come back to this issue.”
