Today the National EIA Commission has expressed a favourable opinion, with recommendations and prescriptions, on the project of the new site for the planting of sediments from excavation located in the area lagoon south of the Isola delle Tresse along the Canal Malamocco-Marghera. Announcing the green light, the Authority of Port System of the Northern Adriatic Sea highlighted that "this is a decisive step for the implementation of an essential intervention to ensure the continuity of maintenance dredging, the safety of the navigation and the implementation of the works, commissioner and non-commissioner, that affect the port system and the cities of Venice and Chioggia». "It is - noted the president of the Port Authority and extraordinary commissioner, Matteo Gasparato - a a fundamental step, which confirms the quality of the work and the need to equip the port with an infrastructure Modern, safe and capable of guaranteeing full operation of our channels. The project - specified Gasparato - will incorporate the requirements and recommendations made by the Commission so as to make it even more responsive to the standards environmental requirements. We reiterate that this work is indispensable, for the port and the city: it allows the maintenance of major navigation canals and supports the works commissioners and non-commissioners who, in the coming years, will make a contribution decisive for the development and competitiveness of the system Veneto port area. I hope that, in the face of this pronouncement, ideological contrasts on projects that, by their very essence, represent tools compatibility and sustainability between the port and the delicate lagoon environment".

Recalling that the project is the result of an agreement formalized in August 2023 by Commissioner Cruises Venice, which involved the Port Authority, the extraordinary commissioner Montesyndial and the Superintendent of Public Works in the functions of former Water Magistrate, the port authority explained that its The goal is to "provide the lagoon with a new space dedicated to the management of sediments deriving from excavations maintenance and commissioner works, overcoming critical issues of capacities linked to historical sites and ensuring continuity operational to port activities with a time horizon at least 15 years old. The new site, worth a total of 82 million euros and extended over about 46 hectares - he recalled again The Authority - expects a transfer volume of 3.8 million meters cubes of lagoon sediments. The area, completely bound, guarantees full impermeability with the lagoon, will receive non-hazardous lagoon sediments, in accordance with the on the handling of excavated materials and chemical, ecotoxicological and environmental requirements, defined by the current Sludge Protocol".

The project will now be submitted to the Veneto Region for the purposes of the agreement with the Cruise Commissioner provided for by the law for the final approval of the intervention. At the same time, it will take start of the executive design, which will incorporate the prescriptions and recommendations issued by the EIA Commission, and, consequently, the assignment of the works will be carried out by means of a public call for tenders.