The rain washed away 29 billion

There was no hurricane of monstrous force, no destructive tsunami, and the hills with tectonic platforms behaved decently. It was just ordinary rain. And almost the first in the life of the newborn track...

An ordinary June downpour caused a real sensation in Vladivostok. Now city and federal authorities are mourning a section of the highway, 40 km long and costing 29 billion rubles, built specifically for the APEC summit.

“Part of a 20-meter retaining wall collapsed after rain,” the city’s Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on this matter. “Three boat garages were crushed under the rubble. The roadway to Cape Nazimow, which is being built in preparation for the APEC 2012 summit, was also damaged.

Meanwhile, what happened in the city was not a hurricane of monstrous force, not a destructive tsunami, and the hills with tectonic platforms behaved decently. It was just ordinary rain. And almost the first in the life of the newborn track.

Probably, those responsible for budget development assumed that the disaster would manifest itself only after the summit. And she, the dog, failed...

Fortunately, there were no casualties - people managed not only not to get hurt, but also to save their cars and boats from the results of construction. Only a sediment remained. In the form of tons of soil and debris from garages. The authors of the project seem to have bought their diplomas during the transition.

“Gabions (blocks made of metal mesh with stones inside, reinforcing the road embankment. - Ed.) are not made higher than 5 meters,” the chairman of the garage cooperative Viktor Podoprigorin is indignant. – And here their maximum permissible height is violated. I wrote to the administration and said that it would all collapse. They wrote back that everything was done correctly according to the project.

According to residents, not far from the site of the highway collapse there is another similar structure. This is a retaining wall approximately the height of a 3-story building, which has already been significantly deformed under the weight of the soil. There will be a dozen more such sections along the entire route. This means the summit will be fun. If during the next emergency someone, God forbid, gets crushed.