Hydrogeological: 6,633 municipalities in Italy at risk. Especially … – Sustainable Alternative

These are some of the data contained in the file 2013 Ecosystem risk made by Legambiente and presented at Festambiente , the national festival of ecology, solidarity and culture that is being held these days in Maremma, Rispescia (GR).

Despite the gravity of the situation, according to data contained in the document are only 55 administrations municipal decided to relocate households from the areas exposed to greater danger. Very few then. For this reason, according to Legambiente, the government should act as soon as possible to avoid that, with the arrival of autumn, you can repeat dangerous situations such as landslides, floods and flooding.

But what are areas at greatest risk? According to the report it is especially the Tuscany and Calabria, followed by ‘ Umbria, Valle d’Aosta and the Marche. Tuscany for example, are well 280 municipalities in which they are present hydrogeological risk areas, 98% of the total. But that’s not all. In 68 municipalities are homes in flood plain areas in the vicinity of river beds and in landslide risk areas and, in these areas, in 54 Tuscan administrations (68% of the sample), there are industrial plants which, in the event of a disaster, involving a grave danger not only for the lives of the employees, for the possibility of spillage of pollutants into the waters and the surrounding land.

And more. In 39% of the municipalities surveyed (31 administrations) were built in areas at risk even entire neighborhoods and in 29% of cases (23 administrations) arise sensitive structures such as schools and hospitals. In 12 municipalities were built new facilities in areas exposed to the danger of landslides and floods even in the last decade, is still read in the dossier.

“ must act quickly to reverse the trend of recent years in which they have spent about 800 thousand euro a day to repair the damage and less than a third of this figure to prevent them. The recent creation of the mission structure of the government against the hydrogeological is certainly a welcome development. well as freeing all resources already allocated that over the years the State and local authorities have not been able to spend is important, however, to start a national program of maintenance and prevention “ said Giorgio Zampett , scientific director of Legambiente.

“ and ‘priority above all to define more clearly the role, powers and composition of the Basin Authority District, initiating urgently their constitution to ensure coordination at the basin scale in the context of implementation of mitigation of landslide risk.’s national steering committee will then need to ensure that interventions are inspired by a model of environmental and economic efficiency and transparency of procedures, also to give a clear address to use for the next Structural Funds ” has added Zampetti.

Festambiente was an opportunity for Legambiente to relaunch the online petition “ We put in security the country now! “, which calls on the government Renzi to leave immediately with interventions for the prevention and maintenance of the territory.

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