A VILLAGE submerged by an artificial lake 50 years ago has reappeared as receding water levels tell a frightening story.
Drone footage shows several homes and a school re-appearing inside Mornos Reservoir in Greece.
ReutersThe ruins of the village of Kallio have been revealed in Greece[/caption]
ReutersThe ruins have re-emerged from Mornos reservoir[/caption]
ReutersThe reservoir was built in the late 1970s to help meet the water needs of Athens[/caption]
ReutersIt is the second time the ruins of the village have emerged in 50 years[/caption]
Ruins in the village of Kallio have re-emerged as Greece suffers from another year of plummeting rainfall levels.
The village was made up of 80-or-so houses, a church and a school and was sacrificed to make way for the lake.
The reservoir was built in late 1970s after residents of Kallio were forced to evacuate their homes for the man-made water reserve which supplies water to Athens.
It is only the second time since Kallio was abandoned that the village has been seen.
The first time was in the 1990s during another drought.
Yorgos Iosifidis, a 60-year-old pensioner who lived in Kallio as a young man said: “You see the first floor that remains of my father-in-law’s two-storey house.
“And next to it you can see what’s left of my cousins’ house.
“If it doesn’t rain soon, the level will drop further and the problem will be more acute than it was then.”
Apostolos Gerodimos, the head of the 60-strong community forced to move upland when the dam was built, said: “It’s a nightmarish situation.”
“The more water levels fall, the more buildings that were submerged back then are re-emerging.
“If it doesn’t rain this winter the problem is going to get much worse.”
Meanwhile, the village’s deputy mayor said he thought the water levels had dropped by 40 metres.
He said: “We haven’t seen anything like it since 1993.
“It’ll be more acute than even then if things don’t improve.”
In satellite images released by Greece’s National Observatory, the lake has shrunk from around 6.4 square miles in August 2022 to 4.6 square miles this year.
The state-run Athens water company EYDAP had begun supplying the network with additional sources of water, stating Mornos Reservoir was at 30 per cent.
Other reservoirs supplying water to the Attica region, which includes Athens, have also recorded a significant drop in water levels.
EPALocals have described it as a nightmarish situation[/caption]
AFPThe first time the village emerged from the reservoirs was in 1993[/caption]
EPAThe dam has shrunk down to 4.6 square miles[/caption]
EPAState-run Athens water company EYDAP said Mornos Reservoirs was at 30 per cent[/caption]
AFPThis aerial photograph shows cracks on the shore of the Mornos artificial lake following a severe drought[/caption]
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