The level of the Po river is rising after the rains of recent days, but the situation is not worrying because it is not expected to reach the threshold of attention.
The photographs, taken just before 9am on Friday 17 May, are suggestive and bear witness to this the level around one meter and 10 centimeters above hydrometric zero. While the rowers are already organizing themselves to secure rafts and boats, there are many curious people walking along the river to see with their own eyes the spectacle of the renewed flood.
a further increase in the level is expected for the next few hours which could reach 2 meters or little morethen it will depend on the next heavy rainfall expected once again next week.
Gaetano La Montagna, from Aipo, defines the hydraulic situation of the Po basin as under control even if the forecasts provide us with a “probable further worsening starting from next Monday. At this moment Aipo is engaged not only in monitoring the hydraulic event, but also in implementing a series of safety interventions following local critical issues, especially in the urbanized areas close to the minor watercourses tributaries to the Po At the moment the Cremona hydrometer registers a level of just over 1 m above the hydrometric zero, the so-called attention phase in Cremona is triggered when 2 meters and 20 centimeters are exceeded, but as of tonight, the Aipo technicians of Cremona are in the phase. of early warning on both the Po and the Adda. The hydraulic forecast of the current floods sees this phase continuing in the Adda mouth – Oglio mouth stretch for another 24/36 hours. The situation of the pre-Alpine lakes is also being monitored, even if at the moment there have been no reports of particularly evident damage”.
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