The smarino of the Third Pass for the fillings of the port of Genoa



The committee of the Liguria Region, on proposal of the city council member to the Raffaella Paita Infrastructures, has approved of a deliberation on the sites for the fillings with the material of digging deriving from the realization of the Third Pass of Giovi, the railway line long Genoa-Milan 57 kilometers, of which 30 in gallery, of which attends the opening of the yards. The regional agency has remembered that, second the esteem, will be than six million than cubic metres (little less quantitative deriving from the sun works realized on from Liguria territory) of detritus composed from "smarino" of the gallery.

The regional deliberation previews that almost 1,8 million cubic metres of smarino are employed in the port of Genoa. In particular, 500 thousand cubic metres will go in the filling for the upset to sea of the plant of the Fincantieri di Sestri West, other 820 thousand to the harbour area of Voltri and 450 thousand will be used for the realization of the pier to the bridges Libya and Canepa.

For the remaining part of the material, 800 thousand cubic metres will be employed for the construction of an earthwork to Scarpino, while 2,3 million cubic metres of smarino will be distributed in the hollow ones of Castellaro-Cravasco (beyond 2,2 million) and Buzzi Unicem-Old Fornaci (a million).

"With this action - the Paita city council member has explained - the Liguria Region concludes all the actions of own competence for the Third Pass, a project that has gotten back in motion and that it is waiting for a definitive agreement between RFI, the society of the Railroads of the State, and Cociv, the general contractor of the work. The true point of force of the deliberation is the fact that great part of the smarino will contribute to the construction of works many waits as the upset to sea of Fincantieri. It is a choice important in order to do so as that a strategic infrastructure as the Third Pass can contribute to realize of another of as much importance".

"It is - it has concluded Raffaella Paita - the choice of the development who generates other development and of a territory that does not intend to renounce to own industrial and productive vocation. The Liguria is keen on to grow for this is spending every energy for the programming and the realization of new infrastructural works that connect it better and of allows than to exercise to full load the harbour role of logistic platform".