The consolidation works of the Porto Palo hill in Menfi, in the Agrigento area, devastated by a landslide, are ready to begin. It was President Renato Schifani himself who promptly welcomed the heartfelt appeal of a local trader who was left without a job after the collapse of the rock face that crumbled in November 2021, making homes and businesses below the hill uninhabitable.
“Today – announces the governor of Sicily, who urged the intervention of the Structure for the contrast to hydrogeological instability of which he is the head – we are keeping the commitment with those people who, because of that sudden landslide, had been denied the possibility of continuing their activity or living in their homes. We are starting the work that will allow us to restore the necessary safety conditions, bringing the situation back to normal”.
The offices in Piazza Ignazio Florio in Palermo, directed by Salvo Lizzio, after completing the tender procedures, have in fact entrusted the consolidation work to the company Eredi Marotta of Mussomeli for a sum of 250 thousand euros. With an emergency procedure, Palazzo d’Orleans had made available a budget of half a million euros to intervene on the landslide slope, while for the entire hill, already classified as high risk in the early 1950s, it will be the National Civil Protection, with funding of seven million euros, to carry out the works that will serve to stabilize it.
The planned works, which will last ninety days, consist of the creation of a series of terraces with wooden palisades and the planting of trees capable of fortifying the ground. Drains will also be created to correctly convey rainwater downstream.
