Friday is inaugurated the new navigation lock on the Pò river to Island Seraphs



Slid friday, near Monticelli d'Ongina (Piacenza), is inaugurated the new navigation lock on the Pò river to Island Seraphs, work financed with 47 million euros (of which 6,8 million, 20%, put on from the European Union) that free navigation in the Pò in both will allow the directions in the feature comprised between the Adriatic Sea and Piacenza. The new navigation lock is realized in order to exceed the artificial obstruction of hydroelectric headquarters Enel of Island Seraphs.

The new navigation lock is the only one in function on the Pò and affords to exceed a variable unevenness between the 4 and 13 meters, according to the capacities of the river. It is constituted by a bathtub of reinforced concrete long 115 meters and wide 12,5 and equipped of vinciane doors. For dimensions and characteristics the enforced European classification (until 110 meters of length can second allow the transit also of ships of great dimensions, 11,5 of width, draught fully loaded of 2,5 meters and capacity until 2.000 tons, equivalent to 50 trailer trucks). The work is constructed because the precedence conca, going back to 1962, the same year of the birth of the Enel headquarters that block the course of the Pò, was not more usable gives about a twenty-year period because of the lowering of the river bed of the river.

The work is officially held to baptism with the first passage of the equipped motor-ship Stradivarius, one of the little that still transport tourists on the large one via of water of the Pò river. Draft - it has emphasized the president of the Emilia-Romagna Region, Stefano Bonaccini, in the course of the inauguration - of "a work of high strategic value, an ulterior dowel in order to promote the economy of the littoral territories of the Emilia-Romagna along the Pò, as well as fundamental axis in order to increase is the attrattività is the possibilities of increase of all our region, for a choice of sustainable development. The increment of the mercantile traffic on the Pò will be able in fact to give an important contribution to the reduction of the transport on rubber and therefore to the improvement of the circulation and the quality of the air, priority objective of this committee. The Conca - it has continued Bonaccini - will be able to then give impulse to fluvial tourism, a field with great potentialities, thanks to the numerous artistic routes, cultural and enogastronomic that the Emilia-Romagna can boast and with the existing pedestrian bicycle trails and about to planning close of the rivers of the river".

The day before the inauguration an encounter has held to Milan on the Development of the Idrovia Adriatic-Piacenza with represented of the Italian authorities and the European Union that is promoted by the International Propeller Club of Venice, Mantua and Milan. "The inauguration of the new conca on the Pò to Island Seraphs between Cremona and Piacenza which co-financed from the European Union - it has emphasized the president of Propeller of Venice, Massimo Bernardo - represents for many entrepreneurs an ulterior element of hope in bringing back the mercantile Lombardy and its traffics to look with greater east interest, towards the Adriatic and, therefore, to the great harbour system that is under responsibility of the ports of Venice and Chioggia, this last one, the memory, only port fluviomarittimo of the Country".