The Region Friuli Venice Julia approves of the preliminary plan of the dredgings in the port of Monfalcone


Today the regional committee of the Friuli Venice Julia has approved of the preliminary plan "for the intense activities of deepening of the channel of access and the basin of evolution" of the port of Monfalcone, that she previews to carry the minimal depth of the channel from current the 11,5 meters to -12,5 meters.

The Region has announced that, second the written up preliminary planning from the technical departments of the Consortium for the industrial Development of the Municipality of Monfalcone, previews an operation of dredging for a total of approximately 950 thousand cubic meters of material to escavare.

Altogether, resources are available financial institutions pairs to 13,5 million euros, of which approximately 11,5 million euros of regional source and almost two million coming euros from the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports.

The deliberation approved of from the committee of the Friuli Venice Julia indicates the necessity, before the approval of the definitive plan, to preview some technical investigations on the overwhelmed case of destined to collect sediments dredged, on the characteristics of the materials to dig, let alone the requirement to subject the plan to the procedure of VIA (Appraisal of environmental impact) state.

"The today's approval of the preliminary plan - it has observed the regional city council member to the Infrastructures Riccardo Riccardi - ahead represents a certain step in the program of development of the marine port of call of Monfalcone. We believe features of first, important result after the block of the procedures to which we have unfortunately assisted during the last few years". "A fundamental passage, therefore, for the port of Monfalcone - it has continued the city council member - in the auspice who the procedure of VIA enjoys a fast distance of approval and that, therefore, in little months can be managed the definitive planning of the operations of escavo. Meantime, it is necessary that the bill on the regional portualità of Monfalcone and Porto Nogaro finds an express iter of approval during regional council".

Always today, while, the regional government has allocated the sum of 335 thousand euros (annuity 2012) in favor of the same Consortium for the industrial Development for the follow-up of the intense activities of ordinary maintenance of the ports, the marine channels and the ways of inland navigation in the coastal arc between Grado and Muggia and has moreover destined the sum of 380 thousand euros to the Consortium for the industrial Development of the Aussa Horn for the priority participations 2012 in the marinas of regional competence and the marine channels in the coastal feature comprised between Degree (Gorizia) and the river mouth of the Tagliamento, to the border with Veneto. The two main participations financed from the Region will regard the dredging of the marine channel of access to the comprensorio of Porto Nogaro, for which the sum of 300 thousand euros is allocated, and the maintenance of the marine signalings and Lagunari in the portion the West of the Coastal Venetian and the channel of the Aussa Horn (and its distributions), comprising also the buoys of signalling to the wide one of Porto Buso. The city council member Riccardi has specified that with a successive deliberation of the committee moreover financial institutions for the intense activities of dredging of the channel of Lignano will be assigned to ulterior resources, "with a cost estimated of approximately 500 thousand euros, a job that the regional government considers priority in the within of the necessary operations of maintenance in favor of our nautical-tourist field".