Encouraging news arrives on the front of Galati Marina, the coastal village of Messina which suffered the most, at least in terms of fear among the population, the impact of Cyclone Harry on 20 and 21 January. The contract, for a total of 1 million 200 thousand euros, already planned by the Municipality, for the restoration and strengthening of the cyclopean boulders of the central grazing barrier placed to protect the town was awarded to a Neapolitan consortium of companies. The then municipal councilor for maintenance, Francesco Caminiti, reported this to the “Salviamo Galati” committee in recent days. The legal checks that follow each award began immediately and, if all goes well, the work could begin in a month or so.
This is extraordinary maintenance that is more necessary and urgent than ever. The award comes just over a month after those two terrible days in which the barrier built in 2022 (then to protect the Raciti Houses) lost pieces and was disorganized but, overall, it proved providential in curbing the cyclonic waves of “Harry”. No one in the town underestimates it: without the shield of those boulders, flooding and structural damage would most likely have been devastating as they were on the seafronts of some Ionian municipalities.
