The completion of the works necessary to make the Campolattaro dam operational, in the province of Benevento, is among the ten strategic projects of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.
A result strongly desired by the De Luca Board, which in 2016, just one year after taking office, had restarted the bureaucratic process of the work that, started in 1980 by the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno, lacked a derivation to be able to use the more than 100 million cubic meters of water present in the reservoir. More recently, the Regional Directorate for the Water Cycle has approved the final project which, once completed, will allow the water contained in the reservoir to be used for drinking, irrigation and energy purposes, making one of the most important artificial reservoirs in the Mezzogiorno operational.
The political and administrative action of the Regional Authority has benefited from a great institutional collaboration, first with the Province of Benevento and then with the Sannio-Alifano Reclamation Consortium, the Southern Apennines District Basin Authority, the Campania Water Authority and the Territorial and Local Authorities involved, until its efforts have been rewarded with the €220 million allocated by the national government under the NRRP. The resources complement the 305 million already prepared by the Campania Region which, analyzing the current water trends, has strongly invested to use the resources of the 7 square kilometer artificial lake that will be able to provide drinking water to more than 500 thousand citizens, irrigate over 15 thousand hectares of agricultural land and produce clean energy.
With the completion of the works, a 7 and a half kilometre tunnel will be built, which will have the task of conveying 6500 litres of water per second to the plant area of the municipality of Ponte, where there will be a potabiliser and a hydroelectric plant for the energy valorisation of the available hydraulic load. From here, Campolattaro’s water will be divided by the uses for which it is intended: Drinking and irrigation.
The drinking water will be partly pumped to the Beneventan municipalities of Upper Sannio and Upper Fortore, giving priority in any case to the water scarcity of all the Samnite municipalities starting from the city of Benevento, thus lightening the load on the Molise aqueducts and the use of the Cassano springs, which are also used to quench the thirst of Apulia. The remaining part will be fed into one of the two new aqueducts, provided for in the plan, intended for irrigation and drinking.
The new aqueducts will constitute a real "water highway" that will cross and irrigate it.
the entire Telesina valley, then grafting into the Campania aqueduct. This will greatly increase the
quantity of drinking water, made in Campania, which will serve the municipalities of the provinces of Naples and Caserta and the
Sarnese-Vesuvian basin.
The new resource will be essential to help keep the drinking water balance in balance.
Campania, now compromised by the instability of imports from the source of Biferno. The resource
Molise, especially during the summer, greatly reduces its range. The Invasion of
Campolattaro, with its 2800 litres of water per second, will largely compensate for the deficit, allowing
the Campania region not to suffer water stress in the near future.
The commissioning of the dam will also take care to respect the important naturalistic role assumed.
from the Campolattaro reservoir. In fact, the level of water necessary to preserve one's life will always be preserved.
Wetland has become crucial for the local ecosystem.
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