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UNCEM Piedmont and the ARPIET (Piedmont Regional Association of Transport Companies) have launched a plan to create 22 water basins in the Piedmontese alpine valleys.
Saturday 5 August 2017 9 minutes reading time
The plan was set up to give new opportunities to Piedmont ski resorts, with 22 new mini-watersheds guaranteeing water resource for programmed snow, but has in fact turned into an effective Piedmont photo that seeks to protect and use better The water, keeping "the blue gold" and enhancing all possible uses. 650,000 cubic meters of additional water will be available, as well as for programmed snowfall, also for potable uses, to produce electricity, agriculture and fire extinguishing.
The localization and volumes of the new water reserves have been proposed by the owners of ski resorts and the average cost of storage is estimated at 30/35 euros per cubic meter. "We started with the Region in making a study that will allow Piedmont ski resorts to be an effective opportunity for programmed snowfall," said President Uncem Piemonte, Lido Riba. "We have a complete picture of the needs, opportunities, environmental compatibility and Water bodies, costs and public-private financing opportunities for 22 new mini-basins, capable of storing 650,000 cubic meters of water more than the water quantities now protected by invasion in Piedmont. " Twenty million euro is the investment to realize the plan: 15 for basins, 5 for pipelines. A figure that Uncem, Arpiet and the Enterprise System and Mountain Unions can find on the Por Fesr or thanks to the FSC National Funds. From the Regional Council, the commitment to identify appropriate public resources to make the study, one of the most advanced of all Italian regions.
The Uncem-Arpiet plan will have to run parallel to the national one that, thanks to 300 million euros of Cipe funds, allows to intervene in 100 Italian dams, improving its efficiency, increasing its capacity and effectiveness. Economical resources for new infrastructures are also needed. Many local authorities of several alpine valleys, particularly Cuneo and Turin, have for years worked to create basins and small barriers on water courses. It needs programming, in addition to funding. Anbi (Association of Reclamation Consortia) has recently presented a national plan that only for Piedmont provides for 8 new invasions (of large size, including the exemplary "Serra degli Ulivi" in Monregalese) for a total investment of 490 million euros. "This summer's drought is not great," adds Riba, "as many environmental experts, meteorologists and even economists have pointed out. We need better water resource planning in a subsidiary logic between territories The mountain keeps the water, the stubble in glaciers and tiers, releases it to the valley, and we can not use 6 of the 13 billion cubic meters of water downstream every year, a new invasion plan is needed. " Uncem emphasizes the importance of concerted work with the territories, but also the role of the Mountain Communities of Municipalities in regional-led planning. Yet, "a necessary enhancement of ecosystem-environmental goods", emphasizes Riba. "The water - says President Uncem - has a value that hydroelectric and hydropower players must recognize. The royalties and supra-canons for territories are updated, clear rules have to be written. Uncem insists for years This front to avoid colonization, inaction, private speculations. We will write to the Ministers of Infrastructure and Transport and we will work with all Uncem Delegations, with an important work led by President Enrico Borghi. " Uncem, a month ago at the Chamber of Deputies, also presented the "Manifesto for the use of water resources in mountain areas": an advanced document looking at the system by combining environmental, economic and landscape aspects between conservation, conservation, development , Inclusive growth, fair and sustainable well-being.
Compared to the Piedmontese study Uncem-Arpiet, the chairman of the rope plant managers and operators, looks at strategies and needs. "The study produced by Mr Francione," says Giampiero Orleoni, "shows two things: first, that the Piedmont areas are an important and fundamental economic reality of the Highlands, which often survive depopulation and desertification only through the presence Secondly, that a number of structural investment measures are crucial to achieving adequate flooding capacities to ensure that Piedmont ski runs can be covered in good weather by programmed snow. " Even that snow, produced thanks to the availability of water accumulated in the autumn and then transformed into snow by "cannons" (without any additive, only thanks to the cold and the spears), is a fundamental foundation on which the snowy precipitation of the winter season. "The micro-basins we have censed and mapped - continues Orleoni - fit perfectly into the natural and environmental contexts of the territories.No environmental impact, we certainly do not want to jeopardize the environment.Our businesses are ready to contribute to the realization.The ' 'Multiple use of the resource is paramount. Our stations will continue to live, providing 700 jobs, 750 million euros in turnover and now 650,000 cubic meters of extra water, stored, stored and Released for several purposes, a good investment for the mountain but also for the plain. "
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