Collapsed street in Abdali project closed to public — management

AMMAN — A video purportedly showing the collapse of a street at the Abdali real estate project due to rainfall went viral on Thursday.

The project’s management, however, maintained that the collapse occurred on a street that is currently under construction and is not open to the public.

“The collapse was caused by the construction works and not the rainfall,” the management said in a statement sent to The Jordan Times.

The statement maintained that: “Public safety is a huge concern to the Abdali management.”

The effects of a depression that started Saturday continued on Thursday, causing unstable weather conditions that brought rain to several areas around the country.

A slight rise in temperatures is expected over the weekend, with slight chances of rain, according to the Jordan Meteorological Department.

This week’s rain channelled over 15 million cubic metres of water into the Kingdom’s dams, Jordan Valley Authority (JVA) Secretary General Saad Abu Hammour said in previous remarks to The Jordan Times.

The JVA secretary general said the total amount of water stored in all the dams in the Kingdoms, whose total capacity is 325mcm, currently stands at 132mcm.