All Year Round, Clear Water Springs Pour from under Asphalt in Ilisu

Baku / 11.09.20 / Turan: In the village of Ilisu in the Gakh region of Azerbaijan, springs with clean drinking water are pouring from under the new asphalt laid last year. No new springs were found underground that the road workers who laid the asphalt did not know about. The jets of water flow out, destroying the asphalt because in the summer of 2019, the Azerbaycan Avtomobil Yollari State Agency paved the main street of Ilisu village on top of old worn out water pipes. These pipes were leaking last year, the villagers told the representatives of the State Agency about the inadmissibility of laying asphalt over the leaking pipes. But the opinion of the villagers was ignored.

The Turan correspondent, who visited Ilisu in September, photographed the asphalt from under which rivers of the purest water flow, which is not enough in Baku and even the city of Gakh, neighboring Ilisu. The pressure in the pipes increases after rains, and then the rivers on the asphalt turn into water streams.

In last year's article, an asphalt plant worker who wished to remain anonymous explained to the reporter about the methods of misappropriation of funds at asphalt plants and road construction enterprises. Asphalt is not prepared in accordance with state standards, and asphalt is laid on the road less thick than it should be according to the norms, he explained.

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Measurements of the asphalt thickness in Ilisu carried out by Turan showed that the norms for the construction of the road were not met. Over the past year, the work has not been eliminated. Residents and guests of Ilisu can see the result of Azeravtoyol's criminal attitude to his work every day.

A year ago, when Turan first reported violations of the standard when laying asphalt in the Ilisu-Gakh section, the representative of Azərbaycan Avtomobil Yollari did not comment on the publication, despite repeated appeals to this organization. This time, the phone number 5997975 indicated on the website of the state company also does not answer.  — 0—