Lake Dumping Approved for Sperone Tunnel Excavation Material in Garda
On March 21st, rather than officially marking the beginning of spring, it signified for Malossini and Matteotti the end of a nightmare: yesterday afternoon, a provincial service conference confirmed that the material coming from the Sperone tunnel excavation can be dumped into the lake.
Until now, there had been political approval from the provincial council and a belief that a quantity of rocks taken from the lake’s shoreline and thrown below water level could not, in any way, pollute Garda.
The question of possible bureaucratic obstacles, laws and regulations, directives, and commissions, which kept the rivani on edge, remained open.
They had even spoken loudly, reiterating with firm certainty that after May 31st, no truck loaded with rocks would transit through the city streets, Canella, Largo Inviolata, Viale Pernici, and Damiano Chiesa, heading to the landfill, with permission to go in the opposite direction on Viale Trento, even if it meant blocking the excavation.
Authorization and unloading procedures
A small amount of concern always lingered, accumulating day by day as trips to Trento revealed further obstacles, small but persistent.
Now, liberation. The meeting of the heads of all provincial services responsible for overseeing the project has given the green light.
Dumping into the lake, from yesterday, is now possible.
The technical timings for changing the trucks’ route remain to be clarified. According to preliminary reports to be confirmed, the material will slide into the lake from a discharge roughly aligned with the staircases connecting the lakeside to the main road.
The unloading operations are expected to cause a total closure of the old road segment between the crossroads at Bar Nazionale and the Ponale interchange, for car parking while waiting to board Navigarda ferries departing from Piazza Catena.
There are no restrictions regarding the quantity: all the necessary rocks for the project will eventually end up in the lake, which the municipal technical office has prepared in very short fashion and which has now been approved.
