Regarding the floods that have paralyzed Scafati, the City Councilor Michele Russo wrote an open letter to the President of the Campania Region Vincenzo De Luca, which we report below:
“Dear President, I am Michele Russo, a city councilor, former candidate for mayor of a civic coalition “Insieme per Scafati”, we do not know each other, however I feel the duty to write to you for my city community.
Yesterday, December 19, our city was paralyzed by flooding, to a much greater extent than in previous circumstances.
The situation is getting worse and worse.
The problem of the Sarno basin and the hydraulic system of the river and the network of canals has been the object of ineffective political attention for years. For the remediation and decontamination, activities have been underway for several decades, some results can be glimpsed but at the same time there is still much to do. Returning to the floods, I tell you, also as an engineer, that we could find ourselves facing some tragic event, with dramatic consequences and victims, sooner or later.
And so, Mr President, I ask you, appealing to your resolve and your decision-making, to put them into practice also for this matter, to take an interest in it.
It is not possible that the Great Sarno Project is at a standstill, bogged down.
For years, “politics” has decided that something needed to be reviewed.
Where is this review at, after about five years? Don't they seem like too many? We are sure that you think so. But you have a duty to do something.
Have alternative technical solutions been identified to the contested ones? What stage are the new projects at? When is it reasonably conceivable to actually start the works to secure the river and the canals of the Sarno basin, and the consequent safeguarding of the population?
Excuse me for coming back to this: here we are talking about events that could take on tragic connotations. There could be deaths and injuries, to be explicit. Clear?
They would weigh on the conscience of all those who have not resolved the problem for too many years.
Further inaction and delays cannot be tolerated, and from the height of its role it is necessary to make the communities understand that the solution to the problem of the basin must also be addressed with a spirit of solidarity by all political subjects in the field, by the representatives of all the municipalities, even those least penalized by the status quo.
In the meantime, we are pleased to note the allocation to our city of approximately 31 million in European-regional funds, for the completion of the school complex, for several new works – some of which are questionable but are choices of the municipal administration –, for the Productive Settlements Plan.
Scafati, however, needs not only these things, or rather perhaps even before these things, the safety and reclamation of the Sarno for the quality of life and for the very life of its inhabitants.
For this reason, for the common good, in the exclusive interest of my fellow citizens, the political commitment that I have accepted and that I will carry forward makes sense.
We are waiting for you in Scafati, a city that is suffering, to show it to you, when you have time.”
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