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VAJONT 9th October 1963
h 22:39
Comenius project«Let’s know,let’s love,let’s protect our
environment»
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.
The dam’s project
The construction involved the loss of a unique natural environment.
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.
The reservoir
Then, the society engineers started to fill the reservoir with water to get hydropower. But something went wrong...
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).
The villages: before and after
The village of Piragobefore the disaster...
...and after it.
The first aid Firefighters, policemen, and volunteers of the
surroundings, following the groans, found some survivors under the rubble.
Survivors’ evacuation
An USA helicopter
carried the survivors
to their relatives.
The army’s intervention
The army found the bodies also in places far away from the disaster.
The cemetery of Fortogna
In this place the dead were buried
The reconstruction This is the church of
Longarone, before the
disaster...
...and the new church
built on the 9th October 1977
The central square of Longarone, before the
disaster.
And in the 80s, after thereconstruction.
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.
By
Elettra Bastanzetti
Michelle De Toffoli
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