An entire neighborhood remains a prisoner of its future. Prisoner of his future water network which continues to pump dirty, smelly liquid into drinking water taps. «Since this summer we have been living in a nightmare. From the taps comes that sewer smell that quickly fills the house. Especially when we turn on the hot water. Is it possible that the Municipality has not managed to resolve such a serious situation in all these months? And no one has yet told us whether we are in danger by using water even just to wash ourselves.” One of the residents of via Lanzino speaks for everyone. All those who live in the neighborhood to the north of the city, the one that has developed around via Martorelli, where people live suspended between anger and anguish. In recent days a banner has appeared with a message that summarizes the end of patience: “No more sewage in drinking water.”
The problem is precisely that: the water has been contaminated for months. This had already been confirmed by the analyzes that a condominium administrator had carried out on samples of water taken at the point of entry into the condominium tanks. Laboratory tests had revealed the presence of colonies of Escherichia coli and coliform bacteria. Data sent to the Public Hygiene and Preventive Medicine Office of the ASP which had urged Mayor Franz Caruso to intervene. And, after the Gazzetta’s complaint on October 22nd, Palazzo dei Bruzi intervened with a task force of technicians and workers. However, after having fixed the anomalies in the networks in via Benito Falvo and via Libero Grassi, the team got “bogged down” in via Martorelli.
