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Forty years ago in Romania, the exploitation of several deposits led to the engulfment of an entire village. Four decades later, a handful of former locals remember.
Some traces of the past remain in the village of Geamana (Romania), engulfed following the exploitation of deposits, some forty years ago. In a deserted landscape, only the steeple of a church is visible. The rising waters drove out the residents, a handful of whom survived forty years later. “Before my house was there (…) We first went up 15 meters higher, then a second time. Now she’s up there behind the road “, testifies a resident who was born in Geamana 63 years ago.
It was in 1977 that the village of Geamana sees his destiny change. The political regime in place wishes to exploit the copper present in the mountains, without worrying about the environmental fallout. Over the years, the village disappears meter by meter under millions of tons of industrial mud. These are releases from chemical processes.
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