The erosion of the coast risks undermining the existence of the seafront of San Gregorio di Capo d’Orlando in the stretch behind the promontory of the city, where the wreckage of the old pier and the accumulation of beach that had been created and which defend it are slowly disappearing.
The latest storms have thus highlighted a neggs and further emergency in this stretch of coast. In practice, the sea is taking back what man had taken from it by cementing the beach with the construction of the road and the pier, right there where previously there were rocks and beach.
The only salvation now lies in the natural nourishment project of which Palazzo Europa awaits the signature on the ministerial decree of financing of almost 5 million euros.
It involves pouring millions of cubic meters of sand to be collected from the Bagnoli accumulation where the currents have been dragging it for decades. Prof. is convinced of the validity of this intervention. Salvatore Sansiverinowho has been studying the phenomenon of erosion for years, so much so that he observes in his analysis: «I have serious doubts that structural interventions of any kind can now be carried out, operations that can stop the increasingly advanced erosion. The deconcretion of streams has been talked about for decades but not a leaf has ever moved. The tetrapods from the Bruca torrent to the Gambitta Conforto have in fact retained part of the sand that was already starting to be missing.”
But no other strategies were needed. In fact, the other structural interventions – adds the prof. Salvatore Sansivirino – they have done nothing other than harden the coast from the purifier to the lighthouse and now to San Gregorio, or they have been distorted like the Sirito project without carrying out the planned maintenance interventions. The icing on the cake was the port of Sant’Agata which caused very serious damage to the Santagata seafront”.
