Santa Marta #003
Posted: March 4th, 2010 | Author: livia | Filed under: Rio de Janeiro | No Comments »
This early morning an explosion of water and mud invaded part of the community of Santa Marta, causing fear and controversy between inhabitants.
One of the last apartment-block, built during the urbanization works promoted by local government in 2005, has been evacuated because the structure has been affected by the impressive mass of water and mud.
“This building has been built on top of a tunnel where a water source was passing”, is denouncing one of the 70 occupants.
This event sharpens a debate, already animated in the favela, about quality of interventions in the community: all the buildings realized in the last urbanization works are already degraded and present important infiltrations. Inhabitants denunciate they are obliged to move from houses they built (so they function) to small apartments with no qualified public space, that besides this have important structural defects.