With the emergency still ongoing, with the alert for hydraulic. criticality going from red to orange, the mayor of Modena Gian Carlo Muzzarelli updated the City Council during today’s session, Thursday 18 May, on the evolution of the phenomenon that has affected Emilia Romagna and on the measures adopted.
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With the emergency still ongoing, with the alert for hydraulic criticality going from red to orange, the mayor of Modena Gian Carlo Muzzarelli updated the City Council during today’s session, Thursday 18 May, on the evolution of the phenomenon that has affected Emilia Romagna and on the measures adopted.
The picture of the floods
“The size of the event for Modena was enormous – explained the mayor – among the highest levels ever achieved, but thanks also to the works that have been carried out on the embankments in recent years, there have been no particular problems”.
In fact, the Secchia reached 10.51 meters at Ponte Alto around midnight on Wednesday. To contain it in the last 48 hours, in addition to the primary and lateral expansion tanks, the works of recent years carried out along the banks and in the hydraulic section have been fundamental. On the other hand, the Panaro recorded 11.54 meters on Wednesday night in Navicello and the flood lamination of the expansion tank worked perfectly (in the tank it reached 9.37 metres). At the Fossalta node, the Tepid reached, again on Wednesday, a peak of 8.01 meters: an enormous quantity of water that was possible to manage thanks to the hydraulic safety interventions completed in 2022 by the Region. Despite the alarm, schools, educational services and all public services have never been closed in the city of Modena,
In the last few hours Aipo has taken over a fountain along the Panaro, near Modena, and placed tarpaulins in some points of the embankments of Secchia and Panaro; interventions to contrast filtrations also in the Prati di San Clemente area and in Bomporto.
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Fiumi, Muzzarelli: “The Modenese knot has held up thanks to the works created in recent years”
The mayor informed the Council on the emergency: “Complete the investments”. Great commitment for employees and volunteers
Editorial board
May 18, 2023 6:17 pm
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Tarpaulin embankments along the Secchia
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With the emergency still ongoing, with the alert for hydraulic criticality going from red to orange, the mayor of Modena Gian Carlo Muzzarelli updated the City Council during today’s session, Thursday 18 May, on the evolution of the phenomenon that has affected Emilia Romagna and on the measures adopted.
The picture of the floods
“The size of the event for Modena was enormous – explained the mayor – among the highest levels ever achieved, but thanks also to the works that have been carried out on the embankments in recent years, there have been no particular problems”.
In fact, the Secchia reached 10.51 meters at Ponte Alto around midnight on Wednesday. To contain it in the last 48 hours, in addition to the primary and lateral expansion tanks, the works of recent years carried out along the banks and in the hydraulic section have been fundamental. On the other hand, the Panaro recorded 11.54 meters on Wednesday night in Navicello and the flood lamination of the expansion tank worked perfectly (in the tank it reached 9.37 metres). At the Fossalta node, the Tepid reached, again on Wednesday, a peak of 8.01 meters: an enormous quantity of water that was possible to manage thanks to the hydraulic safety interventions completed in 2022 by the Region. Despite the alarm, schools, educational services and all public services have never been closed in the city of Modena,
In the last few hours Aipo has taken over a fountain along the Panaro, near Modena, and placed tarpaulins in some points of the embankments of Secchia and Panaro; interventions to contrast filtrations also in the Prati di San Clemente area and in Bomporto.
Floods in transit, bridges still closed in Modena and in the Bassa. Levels drop
Crucial works on the embankments
“They are data – underlined Muzzarelli – which confirm to us that the Modena node has held up thanks to the hydraulic works carried out in recent years and that it is therefore essential that Aipo, the Region, the Consortia and all the bodies involved complete the investments on our territory”.
Mayor Muzzarelli therefore expressed his solidarity and closeness to all the communities of Romagna “very seriously affected by an unprecedented historical event which caused a dramatic toll with the death of nine people and over ten thousand displaced people”. In just 24 hours, up to 200 millimeters of rain fell on the region, in 36 hours the amount of water that falls on average in six months fell. There are 42 Municipalities affected by the wave of bad weather, the third in the month of May alone. 23 rivers have flooded, there have been 280 landslides and over 400 roads have been interrupted (more than 250 closed), due to an event that territory “well beyond the state of emergency”.
Emergency management
Going into the details of the measures adopted in Modena to deal with the emergency, the mayor said that the Prefecture convened the Rescue Coordination Center (Ccs) already on the evening of Sunday 14 May, with the aim of aligning all the Municipalities and all components of the civil protection system. In the afternoon of Monday 15 May, after the red alert issued by the Region, the Municipality of Modena opened the Municipal Operations Center (Coc), while the operations room of the single civil protection center of Marzaglia was already active from midnight on Sunday and never stopped working. The CCS and the COC met in succession, several times a day, for the entire duration of the event and will continue their work until the end of the alert.
At 20 on Tuesday 16 May, when the Secchia reached threshold 2, it was decided to close the Ponte Alto and the Uccellino bridge, while the Province closed the Navicello Vecchio bridge over the Panaro. In the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, two monitoring posts were set up in Ponte Alto and Fossalta, where various dewatering pumps worked incessantly.
Wednesday 17 May was the most complex day due to the violent showers of rain that followed one another throughout the morning and into the early afternoon both in the mountains and in the plains. Up to four dewatering pumps worked at the Fossalta node at the same time and there were punctual interventions to resolve various situations, all far from the urban center: local police, municipal technicians and civil protection volunteers delivered preventive sandbags, contacted the families most at risk to ensure their safety and managed traffic and mobility. On the same day, as a precaution, the road bridge Gherbella over the Tiepido and a stretch of via Emilia east, from the bridge over the Tiepido to Fossalta to the roundabout of road Scartazza, were closed. in order to secure the passage of the flood peak of Tiepido and Panaro which took place in the night between Wednesday and Thursday. The stretch of road was reopened on the morning of Thursday 18 May.
“The evolution for Modena has been positive – the mayor said – but the emergency is not over and we will continue to monitor it”.
Muzzarelli once again thanked all the institutions that are part of the local civil protection system. A thank you went to the local Police, engaged 24 hours a day with all the personnel involved, with 788 calls managed by the Operations Center and 135 interventions carried out, and to the Municipal Civil Protection Volunteer Group, engaged with more than 150 man shifts, of which a hundred concentrated at Fossalta and in the monitoring station of Ponte Alto.
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