Lakefront Revamp Enabled by Gardesana Tunnel Excavation Materials
The provincial councilor Casagranda has given the “political” okay with a phone call to Mayor Cesare Malossini. Tomorrow, the latter will meet with engineers De Col and Bortolotti to finalize the details.
But it’s settled: if the material excavated from the Gardesana tunnel, whose digging begins again tomorrow, is sufficient, then D’Annunzio Lakefront, which for years has been reduced to a narrow secondary promenade, should become a “strategic” shoreline, wider by about ten meters, and suitable for various tourism enhancement projects (gardens, walks, parking areas, small service structures).
Purpose and Benefits of the Intervention
The key point is that it has been decided the excavated material from the tunnel will be disposed of exactly where the Municipality intended. This solution, in fact, allows the Rivana administration to kill two birds with one stone.
On one hand, it resolves the headache of having 50 trucks a day pass through the city for four months in both directions (this is the estimate of the material removed from the mountain’s core). On the other hand, it prepares a land platform at least one hundred meters long on which to invest (and Matteotti has already allocated 500 million lire, possibly to be increased) to redesign from scratch a stretch of coast that, after the construction of the Power Plant (1930s), had become inexorably less attractive from a tourism perspective.
Technical Characteristics and Approvals
Of course, the Municipality is not moving blindly. The surveys with the echolocator conducted by the firefighters (carried out during the week) and the maps from engineer Luciano Rigatti (who is also an expert diver on those seabeds) have confirmed that the section to be covered has a maximum depth of 28 meters.
Therefore, a base will definitely extend from the lake water, as it cannot swallow all the material. Also, the companies Collini and Oberosler, involved in the tunnel excavation, have given their consent to the operation.
Thus, in the coming days (after the final decisive examination of the material: it is certain to be dolomite, which is environmentally excellent), the first truckloads are expected to start roughly from Casa Rossa, where another “construction area” will be established.