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New Iztapalapa Sinkhole Forces Traffic Closures as Renovación Repair Work Advances

Aging drainage infrastructure is failing after recent rains in the borough.

Overview

  • Police cordoned Avenida República Federal del Sur between Manuel Gándara and Librado Rivera after a new sinkhole opened, with auxiliary officers directing traffic.
  • Segiagua reports 70% progress on shoring at the Colonia Renovación collapse, but only about 10% overall completion, with a bypass keeping sewer flow moving.
  • Engineers plan to replace roughly 12 meters of a 2.44‑meter reinforced concrete collector and to build a connection chamber to link the new segment to existing pipe.
  • Twenty‑seven residents from eight families were evacuated after the Renovación crater deepened over the weekend, and more than 50 workers with heavy machinery are operating continuously.
  • A separate hole in Santa Martha Acatitla Sur measured about 3 by 2 meters and was tied to a rupture in a 1.22‑meter primary collector; officials count 159 sinkholes in Iztapalapa this year and estimate about a month to fabricate and install the Renovación segment.