The Minister of Economy, Bogdan Ivan, arrived on Saturday morning, May 31, at Salina Praid, severely affected by floods. From there, he announced that about 300 million lei will be allocated to restore saline.
Salina Praid/Photo: Inquam Photos/Alex Nicodim
The statement regarding the amount allocated for Salina also made it on Friday night, at Digi24, when it announced that about 300 million lei will be allocated so that “Romanian waters” can do works to waterproofing the Corund stream that infiltrated the Praid Salina and also a lake upstream from the mining.
The plan of the authorities is to extract water from the newest galleries, and in the next stage they will ensure that they are stable and descend to the four lower levels. About the possibility of collapse, the minister states that “it is a hypothesis”.
On Saturday, Bogdan Ivan announced that, on June 3, experts from Babeș Bolyai University in Cluj, but also internationals will evaluate the situation, so that, in the next period, it can be reconsolidated without endangering the workers.
Also, also on Friday night, the minister transmitted on social networks that underwater drones will be used to study, so that those who will be safe will be safe.
“We have the following options: we allocate the money through the HG to do the deviation works of the Corund River and not to further endanger the mining operation. Two-to find solutions with very high ability pumps to release the seven underground rings of the Praid mine in a form that can be further accessible.
We will use, we have already talked to my colleagues, including underwater drones to studies to ensure that those who will enter, the people who will enter there in the salt mine, will be safe. Unfortunately, it is harder to repair something after it was broken than if it had been done on time, many years ago, when the studies on the table and the Romanian state were supposed to invest in the deviation of this river Corund and to do things on time”, Said the official.
