Il problema degli allagamenti e delle esondazioni del fiume Sarno, in seguito alle precipitazioni abbondanti, è oramai per la città di Scafati come per i comuni limitrofi, un vero e proprio flagello. Ad essere interessato al fenomeno quindi, non è solo il territorio scafatese ma anche la vicinissima Castellammare di Stabia con via Ripuaria sommersa dalle acque straripanti del Sarno.
The Great Sarno Project seems destined to remain on paper and "while the Campania Region, Municipalities and Committees continue to discuss it for several years now, without arriving at operational solutions and without starting the necessary work, inconveniences continue to occur that we hope will not turn into tragedies, sooner or later". Thus begins the analysis of the engineer Michele Russo, opposition Councilor in the municipality of Scafati who explains that the problem is evidently structural and hydraulic: "The Sarno as it is now can no longer support the flow rates that arrive there, certainly due to the urbanization of the last decades and also the undeniable climate change".
“The flooding of Via Ripuaria in Castellammare di Stabia also makes it clear that any dredging upstream of the Sarno River and its canals or the mythical (impossible) reopening of the Conte Sarno Canal, if done alone, would create even more severe and dangerous flooding downstream,” explains Russo, who concludes with the impossibility of solving the problem “without a comprehensive reorganization of the river basin by retaining and distributing the rainfall along the various areas of the Sarno River, and probably for a balanced solution downstream too, the second mouth is essential.”
Fellow councilor Michele Grimaldi – group leader of the Democrats and Progressives and city secretary of the Democratic Party -, pending the necessary and urgent structural interventions, proposes that for the city of Scafati a constant service of immediate cleaning and sanitization of the areas invaded by water first, and then by mud. He also proposes that the traders who operate in the streets most affected by the flooding phenomenon (from via Roma to via Oberdan, from piazza Garibaldi to piazza Trieste e Trento, from via Passanti to via Nuova San Marzano with also via Terze, Corso Trieste and via Cesare Battisti) be exempted from Imu and Tari, in order to help – at least in part – those who are damaged by the flooding.
Grimaldi intends to submit the proposal to the members of the Budget Committee because "those who govern have responsibilities towards the community they are called to administer".
Shopkeepers are already sufficiently hard hit by the economic crisis and the huge damages they suffer now have a specific impact on their commercial activities.
Article published on November 25, 2019 - 19:30
