The village was submerged when a reservoir was created to service the capital, but an astonishing drop in water level is revealing its lost buildings.
The ruins of the village of Kallio are resurfacing from the artificial Lake Mornos, a reservoir in Greece, due to record-breaking temperatures and an extended drought in the region.
The village was submerged in the late 1970s when a dam was built to create a reservoir 124 miles west of Athens. Nearly 80 homes in the town, as well as its church and school, were abandoned to make room for the reservoir.“The level of Lake Mornos has dropped by 40 meters ,” Yorgos Iosifidis, a former resident of the town, told the AP. Kallio also reappeared in a drought in the early 1990s, the AP reported.
An aerial photograph of resurfaced buildings in the Mornos artificial lake. Photo: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP via Getty Images. In shots of the lake, one can see the “bathtub ring” that shows the previously submerged land and waterline of the lake. The situation could worsen before it improves, as dry conditions also provide conditions for wildfires., water reserves in Lake Mornos and three other reservoirs in the region have nearly halved, from 1.2 billion cubic meters in 2022 down to 700 million cubic meters last month.
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