Kephismos: “The situation is extremely serious,” says the cavelogist who discovered the 3 underground lakes

“Extremely serious” characterizes the situation with staticness in the after the discovery of three the cavelogist and coordinator of the team “Geomythiki”, Dimitris Theodosopoulos, speaking at the Open on Saturday morning (4.1.25). “There may be other lakes because there are still 2 km unexplored in the basement Kifismos. We’ve been exploring him for the last few years. The exploration of underground currents has been done in the last 10 years or so on and Kefisos has been the big bet and the most difficult venture and that is why we explore it in part. And now in our last exploration beyond the other two we had previously discovered,” the cavelogist stressed and continued: DIVERSE “The situation is extremely serious because we are talking about the largest river in the Lecanopei, as we must not forget that (Kifissos) is a river is not a simple sewer, because there is a very serious issue of pollution in the underground part. So there are two issues, the issue of pollution and the issue of stagnation because there are many corruptions.” Asked if there is a static problem in the near future Dimitris Theodosopoulos stressed that “this will be judged by experts, we point out the problem as we discovered the points where there are problems and there must be autopsies by experts and immediate interventions to restore corruption.” ADVERSION “We ring the bell, we hope the officials respond immediately,” he said. It is noted that the first of the lakes was discovered by the members of the same group, in January 2023. It was found at the height of the footbridge of Perisos and Vikela Street in Patisia, immediately after Kifissos’ underground contribution with Podoniftis. In July 2023, the second lake was located below Kifisos at the height of Athens Avenue after entering the area of Reddi and after walking 3.5 km below the National Road. The third and largest lake in the Kifisos bed is at the meeting point with the stream of Eshatia and is the one that causes the greatest concern. This lake was formed as at this point the bed was destroyed and appears to have up to fish. Last August the Region of Attica signed a 1.2m-euro contract with a contractor to remove garbage and enter the closed Kifissus bed. It is estimated that the workshop removed about 12,500 tons of bearable materials, as according to the District, the underground bed had not been cleaned since 2002. It is estimated that several illegal sewerage connections of tributary businesses end up in the underground part of Kifisso.