We receive and publish: “Good evening, the undersigned Daniela Tessadri resident in Nepi in the Colle Lidia residential center, inhabited by approximately 1,200 people, and part of a committee of residents called the Nepi 3 Committee, in response to the situation persistent within the aforementioned residential center, together with other residents he deemed it appropriate to ask for an urgent meeting with Mr. Prefect Dr. Gennaro Capo through a letter reported below in quotation marks.
We would like to make this initiative of ours known to the press, hoping to give greater visibility and resonance to this story: Ca PREFECT OF VITERBO
Dr. Gennaro Capo
Subject: request for a meeting on the critical issues of Colle Lydia (Nepi)
Most Illustrious Mr. Prefect,
As private citizens we are asking for a meeting to make you aware of the serious critical issues in the area of the Lydia Residential Center which are putting the health and public safety of the more than a thousand citizens who live there at serious risk.
All this has its origins in the management of public infrastructures and perpetrated over time as if they were private services. In particular we are referring to roads, public lighting, the water collection and purification system for human and domestic use, the sewage discharge system, the waste water purification plant.
Now fifty-two years after the signing of the Agreement (one thousand nine hundred and seventy-two) between the Municipality of Nepi and the subdivision of the time, this is in total contradiction with what was established by the Agreement itself.
These public works, as per current legislation based on L.1150/1942 and subsequently integrated by the Bridge Law and Presidential Decree 380 of 2001 TU, should have passed under the total responsibility and management of the Municipality of Nepi as the heritage has been unavailable since 1982 , ten-year expiry date provided for in the development agreements as per current regulations.
The road network of the Lydia residential centre, under concession from the Municipality of Nepi, has been in public use for over twenty years, with all the necessary services of interest to the entire community being carried out and conducted within the centre.
Even more serious is the management of the collection and purification systems for water defined for human consumption, the sewage discharge systems and the waste water purification system, which is still carried out today by private companies as these works services are not yet public assets passed to the heritage of the Municipality of Nepi, as per the agreement, foreseen in the implementation plans so that the development of the territory takes place in the correct manner. The management of the water cycle and systems, carried out privately, also completely contradicts and undermines the regulations and obligations indicated in Regional Law no. 5 of 04 April 2014 issued by the Lazio Regional Council to guarantee correct management of water for human consumption and of sewage and purification systems for the protection of citizens’ public health and the control of consumption according to European regulations of such a precious commodity as water.
From the date of enactment of the aforementioned law, within six months, the Municipalities falling within the Lazio Region were obliged to register and expropriate the aforementioned systems to pass them under the management of an integrated water system called ATO
Already in the past, the private management of such a precious public asset carried out on the facilities of the Belvedere Lidya Center has encountered serious problems for the residents, and following reporting to the relevant NAS and local health authorities and from the reports released by ARPA, they were clearly highlighted the discrepancies in the maximum limits referring to the presence of arsenic with regard to water for domestic use, and the presence of coliform bacteria in units far higher than the norm in the waste water of the waste water purifier.
This situation has brought total discomfort to the normal living conditions of the residents of the centre, even more aggravated by the “suspension of the drinking water assessment” by order of the Mayor of the Municipality of Nepi which lasted about a year.
Only thanks to the countless reports sent to the Prefecture of Viterbo and following the decisive intervention of Dr. Geraci Fabio was normality returned.
There are many facts and situations related to administrative management of which you, as the highest institution present in the territory of the Province of Viterbo, must be made aware.
We citizens, residents of the Belvedere Lidya Residential Centre, ask for an URGENT and mandatory “face to face” meeting with your person, to illustrate, with documentation in hand, all the reasons for the request in question. Certain of a prompt response from you, we send you our warmest regards.”
Daniela Tessadri
