Great Sarno River Project, cleaning of the Bottaro canal

With the start of the dredging and cleaning of the Bottaro and Casadodici canals, the first priority actions among those envisaged in the Great Sarno River Project start in the municipality of Scafati.

A symbol according to the President of the Campania Region, Vincenzo De Luca, who intervened to witness the start of the works after there were nothing but maps and not even a design for years. “Now we are reclaiming the Bottaro canal – said De Luca – then we will continue with other interventions in the area of Sarno in Striano and castel San Gorgio. We are working to complete the sewage network and sewers.” In Scafati in particular, the Region has financed, with another 15 million euros, the construction of the sewerage network and the works are underway.

Significant intervention for the city of Scafati for which, again through the POR Campania FESR 14-20, an urban regeneration program has been financed to improve the city's social services. A relationship of institutional collaboration that overcomes ideological and party barriers, as underlined by President De Luca and the mayor of Scafati, Cristoforo Salvati.

The objective of the project, financed by European funds (€ 715 987.23 POR FESR 2014/2020), is to restore the original hydraulic sections of the two canals along their route, which crosses the urban centre of Scafati by removing approximately 10 000 m3 of sediment and waste (classified as non-hazardous) and to improve hygiene and health conditions by removing the waste accumulated over the years with the elimination of odours.

In addition to the works in the Scafati canals, which took place some 30 years after the last extraordinary maintenance work (in 1991), there are three other urgent interventions aimed at reducing the widespread flooding phenomena in the Sarno river basin, during the Rio Sguazzatorio’ in the municipality of San Marzano sul Sarno, the restoration of the hydraulic functionality of the Valesana absorption tank in Campomanfoli in the municipality of Castel San Giorgio (Sa) and the hydraulic reclamation of the Lavorate plain in the municipality of Sarno.