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RIO – After getting wet with the
Christmas Eve
, the Valongo Pier, declared World Heritage in 2017, was the subject of a "cleaning" on Tuesday. Garis de Comlurb used jets of water to remove the layer of mud that covered the archaeological site, and the accumulated rainwater had to be evacuated. As Rio TV's RJ TV showed, the flood would have moved some of the stones of the former slave port, considered the most important of the Americas.
Flooding occurred even when the site relied on its own drainage pump system. The Rio de Janeiro Urban Development Corporation (Cdurp) stated that there was no equipment failure: the fault would be the large amount of waste carried into the Cais and affecting the system as well as the volume of rain that would have resulted in exceeded the flow capacity of the system.
In a note, the town hall states that in the second, the district of Health, where the archaeological site is, was lost only by the rainfalls of St. Kitts. Rainfall in the Valongo Pier area was 59.8 millimeters between 12:15 pm and 2:15 pm, which is 41 percent of the region's historical average of 145.9 mm in December. Cdurp denies that the site was damaged by the accumulated water. This is not the first time that the historic site has become a "pool": last July, the place was full after a bombshell came up.
The Valongo pier would have received a million Africans brought to Brazil to work there. Built from 1811, it is composed of traces of stone pavement of the port of slaves.
Still on the verge of flooding, the municipality indicates that in January, the interventions planned in an agreement with the United States government began for investments of R $ 2 million in the Valongo basin, including the adequacy of the drainage system. The project also provides for the restoration of the original stone pavement and the reinforcement of the structure. The works are expected to last two years and are part of the first stage of the commitments signed between the Town Hall, the Federal Government, the Institute of National Historic and Artistic Heritage (Iphan) and Unesco.
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