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VAJONT 9th October 1963
h 22:39
Comenius project«Let’s know,let’s love,let’s protect our
environment»
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The purpose
In the 1930s, the SADE, the Adriatic Society of Electricity, designed a dam to create a reservoir in the Vajont gorge to get hydropower.
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The dam’s project
The construction involved the loss of a unique natural environment.
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The beginning: the building of the dam.
This is the building of the dam:
About 500 workers
worked in the dam and some of them died.
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The reservoir
Then, the society engineers started to fill the reservoir with water to get hydropower. But something went wrong...
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The tragedy
On the night of 9th October 1963 from the slopes of the “Toc” mountain a mass of rock of 260 milions of cubic meters broke off and slipped into the dam causing a wave of more than 200 meters that struck the village of Longarone and the surroundings. It caused over 2000 deaths (without counting the workers).
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The villages: before and after
The village of Piragobefore the disaster...
...and after it.
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The first aid Firefighters, policemen, and volunteers of the
surroundings, following the groans, found some survivors under the rubble.
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Survivors’ evacuation
An USA helicopter
carried the survivors
to their relatives.
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The army’s intervention
The army found the bodies also in places far away from the disaster.
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The cemetery of Fortogna
In this place the dead were buried
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The reconstruction This is the church of
Longarone, before the
disaster...
...and the new church
built on the 9th October 1977
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The central square of Longarone, before the
disaster.
And in the 80s, after thereconstruction.
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The signs of the disaster
This disaster tells us that men, sometimes, for pure economic interest ignore the respect for
others and for the environment.
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By
Elettra Bastanzetti
Michelle De Toffoli