Friday, December 30, 2016

Alarm drought at Palermo, January 3-water fractional: will be utilized on alternate days – News Italian

Sicily is a new emergency water, and more specifically to Palermo dove the water back to every other day, a situation that has really put in the knee some districts of the city. Not happened for over a decade, or when they were installed on the ceilings of the houses the tanks for the collection of water. Unfortunately, rather than a step forward, they are made well 13 steps back, returning to the old situation so many years ago seen that the reservoirs are back to being empty, and for this reason, from next January 3, it will return the shift of the water, or the water will be consumed on alternate days. The reason for this? It was dams are results full to 33 percent of their capacity, a capacity that was considered to be insufficient to ensure the normal supply of the distribution system operated by Amap.

"The continuing situation of low rainfall that affects for months now Sicily has led to a substantial reduction in the water reserves in the provinces of Palermo, Enna and Caltanissetta", has informed yesterday the Town of Palermo through a note. Meanwhile, on Wednesday, December 28, has played an important meeting at the regional ministry of Energy attended by the representatives of the authorities concerned, and in that occasion, it took note of the inadequacy of the resources available in the reservoirs, both those present in Palermo and the 4 that are present in Poma, Rosamarina, Piana degli Albanesi and Scanzano which currently have a availability of less than 73 million cubic meters of water against a maximum capacity of more than 200 million.

In this regard has been programmed into a reduction of water withdrawal dto all the reservoirs and hence to a reduction of the water will affect the following circuits, namely: Cruillas Abbey-the Sanctuary, Giusino, Castelforte, san Lorenzo, Petrazzi, Lanza Di Scalea, piazza Leoni, Strasbourg – Nebrodi, Strasbourg Europe, Strasbourg – Sud, Strasbourg – Ausonia, Boccadifalco High, Pitre-Airport, Ambleri, Bonagia–Villagrazia 900, Bonagia–Belmonte Chiavelli Low Bonagia–Santa Maria Di Gesù.

Intervened on the matter, the mayor of Palermo, Leoluca Orlando who said: "It comes with all the safety, – of an exceptional situation, due to the combination of three factors, all independent of the action of the Amap and the Municipality: drought, the reduction of the capacity of the Dam Rosamarina decided by the National Service for Dams, for safety reasons, and the impossibility of use of the reservoir of Scillato for the well-known problems caused to the pipes by some landslides". Therefore, starting from day 3 will be started on a shift in Palermo and the water will be utilized on alternate days; the rosters at least for the moment will have an experimental character, and will be subject to change in case of resumption of rainfall. the "in View of the gravity of the situation and the urgency of intervening in our offices are working in the minimum time for the preparation of the project and we are evaluating the possibi lity to request the intervention of the civil Protection", declared the Wing.

Water every other day as thirteen years ago. The nightmare of the taps dry, which seemed to have been averted, back to loom on Palermo, as it was the first time since 2003. Blame for the drought: in September and November it is not raining as it usually happens, and the reservoirs that feed the water mains of the city were dried up. The basins are empty to 70 per cent, and so by Tuesday, about 150 thousand citizens, from Cruillas to Pallavicino, San Lorenzo, in viale Strasburgo, receive water one day yes and one day no. The condos will have to reactivate the tanks, the families of tanks allowed not to have decommissioned as a theme the same Amap. Similar measures also in Agrigento, Enna and Caltanissetta.
But how long will the emergency? Impossible to predict it. “It has to rain,” say the technicians of the Amap. Yes, but how much? “At least a week at a fast pace but not torrential”.

Blame for the drought, then. But not only: to aggravate the situation, there is also the black-out of the reservoir of Scillato unusable for six years because of a landslide: the Region, which had first promised to pay, has lost the european funds that would have financed the intervention. It will be the Amap, to shoulder the burden of the expense.

The measure, at least during a first phase, it will cover only some areas of the city. First of all, the area Strasbourg-piazza Leoni, a slice of Palermo between the Favorite, via the Alps, via Resuttana and via Nenni (the roads of the perimeter that are excluded): limitations there will be in via Ausonia viale Strasburgo, via Belgium and via of the Nebro – of, via Monte San Calogero in via Liguria. And still in most of the neighbourhoods of San Lorenzo, Villagrazia, Cruillas, Bonagia, Santa Maria of Jesus, and Belmonte Chiavelli. Via Lanza di Scalea, via Castelforte, via Marinai Alliata, via Pitrè and Boccadifalco. In the area of Strasbourg, for example, the water will be delivered in days equal to from 3 to 15.

But why were chosen precisely these areas for the rationing? “Because they are the ones that draw most from the basins dry,” explains the engineer Giuseppe Arcuri of Amap. Remain outside at the moment, the Politeama and the historic center that are supplied also by the Hiatus and by the source of Gabriel. But if the drought were to persist to the prohibitions may be tightened. The decision to reduce the provision was taken during a meeting held at the regional department of Energy, as provided by the department of Vania Contrafatto, monitors the level of the reservoirs since the summer. Reservoirs that are dry.

To put an end to the emergency should it rain for at least a week, but not so torrential in “Seven days of continuous rain and moderate enough: the heavy rain is useless,” explains Amap — this year, you missed out on the fall as had not happened for a decade.” In the four reservoirs Poma, Scanzano, Rosamarina and Piana degli Albanesi, the availability is around 65 million cubic metres of water in front of a maximum capacity exceeding 203 million. The basins are filled, on average, at 30 percent. Too little to ensure the normal supply. The weather forecasts are uncertain: “we do Not know how long the high pressure — say the engineers of the aqueduct — we hope for rain soon”. But can you really hope only in the rain, to avoid the disaster?

it is Not just a matter of weather and bad luck. To aggravate the picture already dramatic, we bring you the sensational any bureaucratic delays: the pipeline that carries the water from the source of Scillato is out of use for six years because of two landslides. Would ensure 700 litres per second. For repair serve 5 million that the Region had before the insured to finance with european funds. That, however, has lost: it will be the Amap, to shoulder the burden of the expenditure going on mortgage. “In view of the gravity of the situation — says the president of Amap Maria Prestigiacomo — we are evaluating the possibility to also request the intervention of the civil protection”. And then there is the case Rosamarina: the reservoir largest, with a capacity of 100 million cubic metres, due to a structural problem yet to be ascertained, this summer has had to download to the sea 40 per cent of its reserves. In the Municipality there is concern among the families st arted to spread the panic. And nobody can say how long you will need to come back to fill the containers.

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