translated from Spanish: Rinse SCT on ‘flooded’ piles at NAIM

Mexico City.- The photograph that allegedly evidences the flooding of train stilts that would connect NAIM to the AICM is actually a different structure and was provided with water for maintenance, the SCT reported.  “The take is the Automatic Person Transfer (APM), which is a continuation of the slab of the Passenger Terminal Building of the (New Mexico International Airport) that would connect with the tunnel for the passenger transfer train between the terminal building and the terminal that would be a thousand 200 meters to the north,” the Secretariat of Communications and Transport (SCT) said in a statement.

He said that cylindrical structures are the columns of this construction and not the stilts as mentioned by various media.

These columns would support the roof and all facilities such as stairs, elevators and mezzanines,” the federal unit emphasized.

In addition, he explained that the water that fills this construction in the form of a large tank is liquid that was deposited with a height of 3.70 meters, which gives it the right weight to keep it level and prevent the soil suppression from pushing up to it making it float r, which would cause fractures in the junction between the slab of the terminal building and the APM.  He explained that this level will be maintained with pumping equipment planned for this purpose and the excess rainwater will be channeled to an end of the slab and sent by gravity to one of the lateral drains of the polygon, from where it is pumped into the Lagoon Casa Color, which serves as the volume of regulation.  That way, he insisted, the entire area of the slab of the terminal building will be protected.



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