A technical crew has been despatched to Panagia tis Assias church to evaluate the injury following the current overflow of Gialias river and to organise as quickly as doable restoration, the Bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage has stated.
In a press launch, the Committee additionally notes {that a} hydrological and geotechnical examine it funded confirmed that coping with the river overflow would necessitate giant scale works on the river financial institution and on non-public properties of an enormous value which might additionally not fall inside its mandate.
The Committee remembers that it has already carried out in two phases conservation works with a view to stop the fifteenth century church from collapsing with a value of €407,374. The Committee`s contribution was 97.5%.
The Technical Committee, the press launch clarifies, regarded into the opportunity of coping with the flooding downside which has been a longstanding one, and funded a related hydrological and geotechnical examine. “Within the framework of the examine it grew to become evident that with a view to take care of the phenomenon giant scale works on the river financial institution and inside tens of personal properties can be obligatory with an estimated value of tons of of 1000’s of euros,” it notes.
Past the massive financial value this could entail, the implementation of such a venture would additionally in itself be outdoors the Technical Committee`s mandate, it provides.
It additionally says that group and church authorities of Assia have been always saved knowledgeable each on the works progress, the deliberations which came about and the selections which have been made following the conclusion of the hydrological examine. They have been additionally knowledgeable of the choice to safeguard the crosses of tombs in giant crates throughout the church`s yard in addition to for the reburial of the few stays that had been discovered throughout the works.
On the similar time group authorities had been notified of the Technical Committee’s remaining place that given the shortcoming to assemble flood defences within the broader area, the one possible interventions have been the restore of the wall across the church and the development of a retaining wall. “It was made clear that these interventions didn’t make sure that the church wouldn’t be flooded once more if the adjoining rivers have been to overflow,” the press launch provides.
The Technical Committee, it stresses, “won’t abandon Panagia tis Assias church”. Already, a technical crew has been despatched on the positioning to evaluate the state of affairs following the current overflow of Gialias river and to organise as quickly as doable the process for the restoration of harm prompted.”