Bad weather in Emilia-Romagna, there is an alarm for the canals: checks during the night
Canals under severe stress in Emilia-Romagna after the storms that hit the municipalities of Valsamoggia between Bologna and Modena yesterday
BOLOGNA – Water, lots of water and in a short time. The Burana reclamation consortium confirms that yesterday in the foothill area of Vignola, Savignano sul Panaro and Marano there was really a lot of rain: around 140 millimeters in these areas with consequent critical issues in some defined sections of the consortium canals, in particular the San Pietro canal. An “equally worrying” situation on the bank towards the Panaro area of Bologna where around 200 millimeters of rain fell in Savignano and the Torbido canal overflowed in the Magazzino area and in the Molino area. “The main spillway in Savignano – the Sonara – has discharged and continues to discharge a very substantial quantity of water into the Panaro river”. The canals, explains the Land Reclamation, “in anticipation of the weather conditions had already been brought into drainage mode and allowed the water to flow out with full hydraulic functionality. The problems of flooding and stagnation of water were found above all in sections located downstream from the most urbanized areas”.
< /figure>
In the lowland areasbetween 60 and 80 millimeters of rain fell “but the conditions of the land already soaked in water led to the same being delivered into the consortium canals, leading to the activation of the Pilastresi plants and Bondeno Palata. The Foscaglia sewer in Finale Emilia and the Santa Bianca drainage system in Bondeno are in gravity discharge mode”. Currently, the Consortium informs,the Po river is at 10.64 meters above sea levelin Stellata di Bondeno and 15.26 in Quingentole (Mantua), slightly decreasing and the Panaro is at around 11 meters above stable sea level in the terminal stretch of Bondeno. Throughout yesterday afternoon and last night, technicians from the Consortium carried out maneuvers and inspections to lighten the water loads in the areas most at risk with the assistance of the Civil Protection and the Fire Brigade. In anticipation of the weather conditions, the Consortium staff will be present to monitor the area and monitor the evolution of the situation.