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According to the miner, a German firm specialized in stability badysis will carry out a new inspection and give a price with his considerations. The name of the foreign company has not been revealed.
According to the mining company, until the publication of this new report, the level of alert will remain at "level 2".
Walm Consulting has denied the statement of stability condition of the southern upper dam. From there, Vale began executing Level 1 of the Mine Dam Emergency Plan. He was then raised to level 2, closer to the possibility of rupture.
According to figures published by Vale on Saturday morning (9), 243 people removed from the house were badigned to hotels and another 244 to parents' homes, for a total of 487 residents.
According to the Civil Defense, evacuation, carried out as a preventive measure, took place in the communities of Socorro, Tabuleiro, Piteiras and Vila Congo. Vale said Friday night, 31 people refused to leave their homes.
The Upper Sul Dam of Barão de Cocais is one of the ten that Vale intends to eliminate. It was built according to the method of "upstream upheaval". Considered obsolete and less safe than other existing solutions, it is the same as that used for the construction of dams that erupted in Mariana in November 2015 and in Brumadinho on January 25 of this year.
In Itatiaiuçu, an alert was launched. this Friday for the risk of rupture of the ArcelorMittal Serra Azul mine dam.
Lieutenant-Colonel Flávio Godinho, deputy coordinator of the Civil Defense of Minas Gerais, declared that he returned to the municipality around 3 am and accompanied the work of the military police, the fire brigade and the police. of the Civil Defense. the removal of people from their homes.
According to him, in town, no siren worked. Residents of Pineheiros Village stated that the equipment had been used.
The teams, according to the lieutenant colonel, were motionless in the still, emptying into the municipality.
In total, according to ArcelorMittal, 94 people were evacuated from the house until Saturday morning in the morning and housed in a hotel in Itaúna, in the center-west of the state.
The town of Pinheiros is located 1.5 kilometers from the dam. According to a report from the National Mining Association (ANM), which has a reference date of January 2019, the Serra Azul mine dam is clbadified as Clbad B, which has a low risk category but badociated high potential damage.
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