Another basement in Kypseli flooded with mud amid metro works

The basement of a residential gathering successful the cardinal Athens territory of Kypseli was flooded with grey mud connected Monday, marking the 2nd such incidental successful little than a week linked to tunnelling works for the caller metro Line 4.

The building, connected Evias Street, is located adjacent to an unoccupied spot where a concrete-like sludge archetypal surfaced past Thursday.

Crews from AVAX, the operation institution starring the consortium gathering the caller line, were dispatched to the country to pump retired the basement.

Last week, Elliniko Metro said the worldly – a substance of crushed stone and specialized foam used successful tunnel-boring operations – had been expelled under unit and entered the abandoned gathering done an aged sewage pipe, earlier flowing to adjacent areas.

The institution said the foam is used to stabilize the crushed and support surface structures by counteracting unit during excavation works.