Alert in Brienz
Threatened by a landslide, 25 households are ready to move
A quarter of the inhabitants of this village in the canton of Graubünden envisages a final departure. Nearly 10,000 m³ of stones fell from the mountain last weekend.
Brienz, November 17, 2024. In June 2023, a torrent of rocky debris almost reached the village, which had then been evacuated. The mountain threatens to collapse again.
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Twenty-five households plan to voluntarily leave Brienz (GR), threatened by a major landslide. A working group mandated by the town will look at this preventive relocation, a first of this magnitude in Switzerland which asks several questions.
Who will cover the costs of such a move, if no damage has yet occurred? This is the kind of question that the four -person working group will have to answer by the town of Albula, in the territory of which Brienz is located.
One thing is certain: whoever wants Quitter Brienz (GR) will have to demolish his house there. It is only from that moment that the person concerned will be compensated under the Act on Forests. By then, the Grisons authorities will grant a relay credit to these 25 households, families, childless couples or single people, who plan to leave their village with 80 inhabitants.
Even last weekend, nearly 10,000 m³ of rocks hit down before Brienz. The village has been evacuated since last November.
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