BRESSANONE. Starting from November, work will continue in Bressanone for the construction of protections against floods of the Isarco river. The workers, led by the foreman Otto Gruber, will start the preparatory interventions, in anticipation of the fifth lot of works between the Acquarena swimming complex and the Aquila bridge.
“Over the last five and a half years, the Northern Mountain Basin Development Office has worked on various construction lots within the framework of the “City-Country-River” project, to reduce the risk of flooding on the Isarco in Bressanone, as well as to enhance ecologically the river area and create local recreational areas”, he explains Klaus Unterwegerdirector of the Civil Protection Agency.
“During this round of new interventions, a new bank wall will be built on the orographic left of the river up to the Aquila bridge”, he explains Fabio Polodirector of the Mountain Basins Functional Area of the Civil Protection Agency. “The riverbed threshold will be dismantled and a bridge built new bank wall with stone cladding. According to De Polo, during the dismantling work the existing thresholds will be produced from 18,000 to 20,000 cubic meters of excavated materiallargely reused. The river bed, near the Acquarena, will be widened for a length of approximately 50 metres.
The planned works will continue until mid-April. The project is financed and implemented with funds from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The cost for this construction batch amounts to approx 2.9 million euros. An information stand dedicated to the population will be organized in Bressanone on Tuesday 22 October, where the phases envisaged in this new batch of works will be illustrated.