Volokolamskoe highway, Moscow, closed due to flooding Tushino tunnel

10 January 2019

The waters of the Moscow canal flooded the road tunnel on the Volokolamsk highway

Today around 11:00 Moscow time due to subsidence of the soil filling of the aqueduct of the canal named after Moscow was podtopleny Tushino tunnel, on the Volokolamsk highway.

Press service of the Metropolitan traffic police informs, that: "the traffic police in the city of Moscow blocked traffic on Volokolamskoye highway from the Leningrad highway towards the Moscow region, and also from MKAD in the direction of center of metro station Sokol".

The Agency appealed to drivers with a request to shift to alternative routes, as well as to strengthen vigilance on the road with a simultaneous strict implementation of the requirements of road signs, requirements and instructions of employees of traffic police.

According to the source "Interfax" the flooding of part of the Tushino tunnel was a subsidence of the dam of the aqueduct of the canal named after Moscow the area of 75 m² directly over the Tushino tunnel. As a result, the road flowed a stream of water with the soil (in fact, debris flows) in a volume of 40-50 litres per second, however, after an hour the flow of water increased.

For the speedy breakdown service "Mosvodokanal" under the leadership of Peter Biryukov created an emergency headquarters. According to the authorities of the city to the threat of flooding radius Tushinskaya of the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line of the Moscow metro no metro and MCC are functioning normally, only had to change the routes passing through Volokolamsk highway Express bus No. 904 and 904К and trolley bus number 70.

According to the preliminary version, the release of water from the channel name of Moscow occurred due to erosion of soil dams, and ochranenie consequences, a strand of nine hours. Driving through the tunnel was restored in full to 20 h

P. S. the Representative Channel management name of Moscow told the media that it is not clear what exactly caused the erosion of the seawall at the approach to the gateway 8 (before the aqueduct over the Tushino tunnel) – filtration of the waters of the channel, groundwater or a combination of these and any other factors. To determine the causes thorough investigation will be held.