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A technical meeting was held this morning at Palazzo D’Aronco between the Councilor for Public Works and Greenery Ivano Marchiol, the manager and technicians of the Public Green Service and representatives of the companies awarded the contract. At the center of the table is the timetable for the mowing of green areas and roadsides, the subject of two different tenders, strongly influenced by the exceptional weather conditions with over 252 mm of rain falling in Udine in the month of May alone and 162 mm in the first 13 days of June. A situation that follows a particularly rainy spring, unusual in the last thirty years according to Arpa data, so much so that the total rainfall in May is approximately three times the average for the period.
“As all citizens with private gardens know perfectly well,” explains Councilor Marchiol, “these conditions favor the growth of grass and make mowing difficult, which with wet grass is not only more complex but is difficult to carry out properly. ‘art. The suppliers we wanted to meet explained that they had intervened several times in the same area to complete each individual intervention. At the moment we are experiencing a delay of around two weeks, however less than the rainy days that blocked work. We are finishing the third mowing operation by June, which will be immediately followed by the fourth. At the moment we have given priority to schools and green areas. In the Municipality the total area to be mowed corresponds to 1,800,000 square meters and we have 300 kilometers of roads on both sides. By next week we will have the calendar and the map of the interventions for the fourth mowing intervention”.
Above, the situation in the Athleti Azzurri d’Italia green area immortalized by a town on 9 June
