“Algiers Metro, Liable To Be Flooded By Underground Waters”: Expertise Report
An exhaustive report in the possession of Echorouk exposes the “makeshift and tinker about policy” followed in the achievement of the long-awaited Algiers metro project.
- The relevant report reveals the failure of the water evacuation systems and the inefficiency of the pumps used to carry out this vital drainage operation.
- Furthermore, the expertise report also unveils the use of reinforced concrete not tallying with the building norms in force at the international level.
- According to the report, such striking flaws and drawbacks brought to light by RATP El Djazair’s experts could provoke the halt at any moment of traffic of the Algiers Metro.
- Such glaring flaws were reported by the firm running the Algiers Metro namely RATP El Djazair to the enterprise behind the construction of the Metro (SVC) on November 5th 2011, just 4 days after the official inauguration of the subway by President Abdellaziz Bouteflika.
- The warning report said that the numerous flaws and deficiencies recorded during an inspection tour of the subway should be repaired swiftly in order to ward off any catastrophe inside the Algiers Metro.