Ascom president Michele Paludetti sounded the alarm: “Phenomenon that has been going on for days”. Already expected today of the technicians of the Consortium of Bonifica Piave and of the municipal offices
VITTORIO VENETO. Protest via social media accelerates problem resolution times. Michele Paludetti, president of Ascom, resident in San Giacomo, had been observing the water that flooded the meadows near his home for days and feared – he but also other inhabitants of the village – that sooner or later it would enter the basements. “I highlighted the problem via the web, the deputy mayor Gianluca Posocco intervened immediately and in the next few hours the technicians of the Consorzio di Bonifica Piave, those of the competent municipal offices and also the managers of the nearby hydroelectric plant will be on site”.
The causes of the floods
Yes, because Paludetti feared that it had been installed on the Meschio river, just nearby, to cause the flooding of the Sangiacomesi meadows, moreover for a few weeks now. And that has been debating a lot for weeks. “Instead – he himself specifies, after an initial survey by Municipality employees – it seems to be a derivation channel that over time has been blocked by branches and other material, so that the water, in the presence of the dam, overflows when it rains more abundantly than usual ». It is an irrigation pipeline that is partly underground, partly visible.
The inspection
The occlusion will be removed this morning. What is certain is that, according to Paludetti, Meschio and its system are too ‘artificialized’, as Legambiente continues to reiterate with repeated complaints. A problem that also worries the District Council, as Mauro Bassetto, the president, admits.
His father, Giovanni Bassetto, who preceded him in the same role for many years, recalls that among other things, the grates on the river installed to protect the turbines of the power plants, forming the dam effect with the accumulation of timber and other materials, dangerously raise the water level. On the one hand, therefore, the Meschio, immediately after the very popular cycle path, and on the other hand the vineyards which, among other things, are expanding. During the recent municipal council it was decided to sell a piece of land owned by the municipality to a private individual who, unexpectedly, had planted a Prosecco vine.