(ANSA) – TRIESTE, 12 AUG – Reducing risk in torrent management in Friuli Venezia Giulia and Slovenia by improving the planning and maintenance of watercourse control works. This is the aim of the two-year ”Torrent” project led by the University of Udine and co-financed with 717 thousand euros by the EU with the Interreg Italy-Slovenia 2021-2027 program. The research will involve six pilot hydrographic basins in the region (Moscardo in Paluzza, Orteglas in Paularo, Miozza in Ovaro and Cella-Vuom in Camporosso) and Slovenia (Krvavec, north of Ljubljana, and Osapska in Osp, in the Capodistria region).
The project partners, the university informs, are the FVG Region, the Regional Development Centre of Capodistria and the University of Ljubljana. Torrent (“Common practices for risk reduction in the management of torrent watersheds”) is coordinated by Federico Cazorzi who leads a research group of the Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences of the Friulian university. The final aim of the research ”is to develop a joint innovative methodology providing intervention guidelines for the management problems of watersheds in Italy and Slovenia. The project will work on the pilot basins to develop shared work tools, easy and quick to use. The guidelines will then be usable in all mountain and hill watersheds of the region and Slovenia.
The work has already started with the collection and sharing of historical data relating to hydrological processes, geomorphological surveys, data from control works and mitigation strategies. The first results have allowed us to develop an indicator of the functional status of hydraulic-forestry works (Maintenance priority index - Mpi) that can also be used as a priority index in maintenance interventions.
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