(ANSA) – FLORENCE, 05 NOV – Water pump of 12,000 and 24,000 liters per minute and other means of the Civil Protection of the Metropolitan City of Florence were set up this morning on the Arno at the weir of San Niccolò, in Florence for the annual test that allows the verification of their level of efficiency and functionality. The initiative, which involved students from the Saffi Institute, saw various entities as protagonists including the Metropolitan City, the Municipality of Florence, the Tuscany Region, Civil Protection and the Reclamation Consortium.
The president of the Consorzio di Bonifica 3 Medio Valdarno Marco Bottino explained that some of these machines were used in 2019 “during the flood of Livorno. They are powerful pumps that are used to quickly empty the flooded places: they have a cost maintenance because when they are used they must always be efficient. If use is rare, maintenance is frequent “. Among the interventions in the Florence area “a positive datum is the beginning of the works in the Renai and the completion phase of all the ancillary works to the Arno. We are suspended between too much water and little water. it is there and we must use it when it is not there, also so as not to make agriculture suffer “.
The regional councilor Monia Monni stressed that “civil protection volunteers are professionals in emergencies. Every year we invest 100 million in maintenance, thanks to the collaboration with consortia. Finally, with this initiative, we return to the normal life of protection. civil protection after the problems related to Covid which saw the system engaged in an emergency not typical of civil protection “. (HANDLE).
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