Large water leak via Messina Marineto Palermo. This afternoon, around 2pm, a water pipe poured thousands of cubic meters of water onto the asphalt near number 721. The causes of the incident are unknown. Some residents noticed the leak, alerting the authorities and the Borough Council. In particular, the neighborhood councilor Giuseppe Guaresi was the first to report the fact.
Water leak in via Messina Marine
“I was alerted by some residents who reported this huge water leak. I immediately highlighted the incident to the Amap offices. We are in a moment in which the city and the entire region are experiencing a period of serious drought. Furthermore, the water that spilled into the street could pose a danger to pedestrians and motorcyclists. These incidents should be avoided.”
According to Guaresi, “the pipes were severed. I hope that the camera traps installed for the indiscriminate abandonment of waste can help to reconstruct the dynamics.” Amap teams intervened on site to repair the fault.
Drought, documentation sent for state of emergency
The episode in via Messina Marine occurred at a time when the Sicilian Region sent the necessary documentation to obtain the declaration of a national state of emergency due to the drought in Sicily. In the dossier, the solutions proposed by the control room led by the President of the Region and coordinated by the head of the regional Civil Protection to quickly put a stop to the crisis due to the lack of rain.
The working group, also engaged in continuous meetings these days, has identified the necessary interventions, differentiated according to the implementation times. Among those rapidly implemented, the purchase of new tankers for Sicilian municipalities in crisis, the regeneration of wells and springs and the restoration of abandoned ones, the strengthening of pumping systems and existing pipelines, the construction of new pipelines bypass. For the next few months, however, we are evaluating the restructuring and restarting of the Porto Empedocle watermaker, in the Agrigento area, and one of the two in Trapani and Gela (in the Nisseno area), an operation that will require longer times and tender procedures. long.
