Messina, emergency between Rodia and Capo Rasocolmo: a coastal erosion embankment

John

By John

The serious phenomenon of coastal erosion does not wait and continues to produce a backward of the coast line in Rodia. To pay Dazio is also Contrada Puccino, where the administration of the mayor Federico Basile is preparing to intervene with a contract. In fact, an emergency intervention of safety of the Tyrrhenian coast is foreseen in the north area. The relative race was published by the Municipality. The “basic” amount is 279,289.72 euros and the economic operators concerned can present the offers by 22 August next. The objective of the executive is to conclude the administrative procedures in a close tour, in order to start the works after the summer, possibly in September. The intervention area, between the inhabited center of Rodia and the promontory of Capo Rasocolmo, It is characterized by the presence of road infrastructures of municipal interest that line the coast, near the town. Here the action of the storms “has determined over time risk situations for the stability of existing structures, as well as for public safety and the use of the coast”, reads the technical report. This is why Palazzo Zanca has foreseen the demolition and removal of the existing cloak, performed by underwater saving up to a depth of 12 meters from the average level of the seafor an estimated total volume of about 2,100 cubic meters of stone material; the creation of new coastal defense works, through the dry laying of natural (limestone or lava) rocks of a specific weight not less, with the cliffs that emerged that the new structural protection nuclei will constitute; The management of the resulting materials, through the transport and transfer to landfills of the residues deriving from demolition processing, in compliance with environmental regulations and the criteria of traceability of waste.
“All the works have been designed in compliance with environmental sustainability criteria, in accordance with technical standards in force regarding maritime works, safety and environmental protection”, specifies the document. The time useful to complete the contract is set in 90 subsequent and continuous natural days, starting from the date of the delivery report.