FOGGIA – The Puglia Region has authorized the use of up to 4 million euros of the regional resources of the three-year environmental planning of the Province of Foggia to intervene in a lasting way on the artificial canals that connect the lakes of Lesina and Varano to the sea, «in a to restore oxygen and revitalize the largest coastal lagoon ecosystem in Italy.”
«We must break the chain of emergencies that repeats itself annually and which damages a piece of the Apulian territory which is precious from an environmental and economic point of view», said the president of the Puglia Region, Michele Emiliano, who, with respect to the new requests expressed by the mayors and communities of the northern Gargano, encouraged “to multiply efforts to cooperate in the search for lasting solutions”.
To allow the oxygenation of the lagoons, operations will be carried out immediately to unblock the canals and improve the circulation of water between the lakes and the sea. But the most important news is linked to the financial availability made available by the Puglia Region to tackle the problem in a more radical way.
«We anticipated the desire to authorize the regional funds for the three-year environmental programming which are intended for the Province of Foggia, which can be concentrated on interventions for the mouths of the lakes of Lesina and Varano, for which no funding was foreseen», explains the vice president Raffaele Piemontese.
