Corroding columns are damaging the aquifer under the Maya Train, activists reveal

Environmental activists are informing that structural harm to columns that enactment the tracks of the Maya Train endangers the cognition of the railway and presents a hazard of biology harm that was foreseen but not addressed. 

The biology corporate Selvame MX, comprising activists, divers and specialists dedicated to protecting the Yucatán Peninsula’s biodiversity, with peculiar absorption connected the Maya Forest and its aquifer, had elicited assurances from a operation institution that it would repair the damaged columns.

Lo que especialistas advirtieron en 2024 hoy es una realidad alarmante

Imágenes exclusivas obtenidas por @SelvameMX el pasado 15 de enero de 2026, revelan que las camisas de acero de los pilotes que sostienen el Tramo 5 del #TrenMaya se están desintegrando.

Pepe Tiburón nos… pic.twitter.com/GQE0ivJH9O

— Fuerza Informativa Azteca (@AztecaNoticias) January 23, 2026

The activists published a video of the harm connected societal media and included a connection that said: “We did a dive to cheque if they had repaired the harm arsenic promised, but we recovered that [a antecedently discovered damaged] file …from which tons of factual spilled, is inactive there.”

Other fractured pilings with disposable signs of deterioration were documented underwater. Selvame MX says the metallic cladding of the columns has detached, exposing the structures and allowing the dispersal of contaminants.

The columns successful question pierce the aquifer strategy of the Maya jungle successful the authorities of Quintana Roo and person been the root of sizeable disapproval from the outset of the Maya Train project.

Last year, the Environment Ministry confirmed that operation of the Maya Train had so caused biology damage, peculiarly to Section 5, wherever astatine slightest 8 caverns and cenotes were importantly compromised to accommodate the train.

Selvame MX claims that surrounding the damaged file are others that bespeak the mediocre operation and low-quality materials used. The enactment maintains that the documented concern represents lone a fraction of the problem, since they are lone capable to supervise the areas to which they person access.

They allege that the contamination of the aquifer by the corrosion of these metallic cylinders meant to incorporate the factual was foreseen and accepted by the promoters of the Maya Train project.

“These cylinders are corroding away,”  they explained. “They service nary enactment function; they were destined to disappear.”

As a result, Selvame MX insists, the factual poured wrong the cylinders volition yet beryllium exposed to h2o and volition degrade, without immoderate anticipation of repair, owed to the inaccessibility of the columns.

With reports from Infobae and Palco Noticias