Disaster from a giant water bag on Mont Blanc

3,000 people in the Saint-Servais valley have just been told about the risk of a giant bag of water under a layer of ice at an altitude of 3200m in Mont Blanc mountain - southeast of France - may burst and spill into the valley .

In July 2010, the Laboratory of Glaciology and Geophysical Environment (Laboratory of Glaciology and Geophysical Environment) announced the discovery of a water bag containing 65,000 cubic meters (equal to the volume of 20 Olympic swimming pools) under The river of Tte-Rousse ice is at risk of breaking and overflowing into the valley below.

Local authorities of Saint-Servais region (Haute Savoie) informed people and immediately implemented an emergency plan to avoid this disaster.

A thermal drilling system will drill down to 40m thick ice to bring 3 pumps to suck water from the water bag and discharge out at a speed of 50m ³ / hour. If all three of these devices work 24 hours a day, it will take at least 20 days to complete the suction and will end no later than October. At the end of Wednesday afternoon, the work was done. begin. The cost for this processing system is 2,000,000 euros.

"We will constantly monitor the situation of this bag with live reports and GPS systems," said Christain Vincent, the school's icebreaker. "If the water bag breaks, the alarm system will alert the person. people to evacuate to the pre-sheltered shelter ' .

In 1892, the disaster from the cause of breaking the water bag under the ice was similar to this killing 175 people here.

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