There is “a significant difference between what is perceived in the city and what has actually been achieved in recent years”. It is the observation, obtained from the comments on his posts, from which the mayor Nicola Fiorita starts a series of focuses to bring to the citizens’ attention “data and elements of evaluation” on the administration’s action. «I cannot underestimate this consideration», he writes: an acknowledgment that also sounds like self-criticism on the ability to describe what has been done. The first focus is on purification and sewerage.
The starting point, the mayor reconstructs, was a purification and collection system “marked by historical critical issues” and by a European infringement procedure, which had led to commissioner management. The first response was to allocate 1.4 million of the municipal budget, recovering loans that were no longer useful, to restore the purifier. Then the Barbaruzza Fosso, which functioned “effectively as a wastewater collection tank”, without operational pumps and with overflows towards the sea in case of rain: now, Fiorita reports, two pumps have been installed and are working.
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