tall, dry grass with serious fire risk

What happened to public greenery in the city of Andria? Perhaps the new urban areas, with green parks and cycle paths, are no longer the flagship of a city that has always claimed a territory made on a human scale, a symptom of a better liveability of the territory with spaces that have added to the large municipal villa and the century-old pine forest?

Maybe something is wrong lately. In fact, although the weather continues to show heat and drought – we are now in the summer solstice – the interventions for the due maintenance of the green areas and infrastructures are delayed, such as the Ciappetta Camaggio gully which, in the urban crossing sections, as for via Murge – which reveal a clear lack of attention in the prevention of fires and, in the unfortunate event of heavy rainfall, which would not avoid damage from a hydrogeological point of view.

As if that weren’t enough, right in the center we come across and now live in spaces invaded by weeds which, with the presence of insects and mosquitoes, put the quality of life in certain urban areas to the test, without neglecting the hypothesis that any fires caused by vandalism, which could cause serious damage to homes as well as residents. In fact, not all homes are equipped with air conditioning systems that would guarantee air quality in the event of fires.
In the urban park of via Mattia Preti, so much dirt has accumulated and the fence is circumvented at night, so much so that it becomes a source of criminal activity). High grass in via Cerruti in the area in front of the bus parking. The exact same desolate scenario for the park in via Canal in front of the social health district, as for the secondary area between the same social health district and the residents’ homes.

We ask ourselves: is this all the attention of an administration aimed at guaranteeing liveability and belonging to the territory? The idea that the population could live in a Wild West style territory, where shrubs and wild plants reign supreme, is unimaginable.

Yet we are in the middle of summer, but we wonder if interventions for maintenance of the territory and prevention of malicious events or natural disasters should perhaps not have been defined in time?