The press conference was a “dutiful moment”. Emilia Romagna region which was held today in Bologna one year after the flood, according to the words of the vice president with responsibility for the Environment Irene Priolo.
“It was a complex year, experienced in an intense way,” Priolo recalled, quoting him 8.5 billion in certified damages and the 17 victimswhich are “the real indelible wound”.
From the vice president, thanks to “11 thousand people of the Civil Protection intervened in those days to ensure the safety of citizens”. Hence the announcement that “Saturday June 15after the electoral period, at the PalaCattini in Faenzain the most wounded territory, a rally will be organized event to publicly thank who played a fundamental role in managing the emergency and who is still working towards a full return to normality”.
Then there is space for the figures of the works, from the first urgent ones to the more structural ones. “Overall – said Priolo – they are 402 construction sites are managed by the Regional Agency for Territorial Security and Civil Protection affecting the affected provinces. Of these, 130 have already been completed, 158 are underway and 114 are in planning. All for an investment of approximately 343 million euros. Urgent interventions on riversall under construction, still managed by the Agency, are 152 and more 137 million euros. They will be added to these further 56 interventions for an amount of approximately 140 million euros”.
The vice president of the Region added that “work is underway on Definitive special plan, which will be approved by the commissioner structure by June. It will include the updating of the first lines of intervention and the integration of the projects identified on the main, secondary and reclamation hydrographic network and on the foothills, hilly and mountainous slopes”.
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