Carpet checks of the Roan, the naval operational section of the Finance of Marina di Carrarain the bathing establishments of the Apuan coast and Versilia.
The financiers have identified several wells, water collection systems from underground aquifer, carried out in the absence of any authorization, from which public water was illegally taken.
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The operationnamed “Aqua Munda” (clean water ed.), was carried out with the collaboration of the Tuscany Region – Civil Engineering sector.
The construction of systems of extraction of the water resource is governed by specific regulationsincluding the Environmental Code (Legislative Decree 152/2006), with the aim of protecting it and rationalizing its use. The violation of these rules has repercussions both from a revenue point of view, due to the failure to pay the expected water fee, and from a health point of view regarding the use of water extracted from different underground aquifersdue to chemical/physical characteristics, with respect to the use for which it is intended.
The financiers, in this context, they communicated to the ASL Toscana Nord Ovest/Public Hygiene and Nutrition Sector the results of the checks carried out for assessments within their competence.
During the checks it was also the withdrawal of underground water has also been found within former sites of national and regional interest, subject to specific reclamation interventions in which withdrawals are absolutely prohibited.
During the operation the Guardia di Finanza soldiers ascertained administrative violations for over 960,000 euros and the evasion of state property fees discovered for a further 600,000 euros which, overall, will result in a recovery of over one and a half million euros for the Tuscany Region coffers.
The activity has favored an exponential increase, on the part of the bathing establishments, in the requests for regularization of the concessions on the points of derivation of water from underground aquifer which will probably have, among the outcomes, the rationalization of the water heritage and the regularization of the foreseen concession, previously processed.
An imaginable consequence deriving from the regularization of pumping was to observe, in some areas, the reduction in consumption and the adaptation of the systems through the installation of withdrawal meters, in order to monitor the effects in the coming years also from a from a geological point of view.
