Friday,
March 21,
Venice
- Raise the Bridge or Lower the River ????
Operation "Rialto" actually is
more like Raise the Buildings rather than Lower the Canals. Seriously,
engineers are planning to lift buildings by up
to one metre (3.3 feet) using piston-supported-poles
to be placed at the bottom of each structure. This will take around a month per
building if each structure is raised by eight centimetres
(3.14 inches) a day.
This is in
addition to Project "Moses", which began in 2003 and is due to end in
2012. "Moses" is expected to cost around four billion euros (six
billion dollars) under huge plans to build 78 mobile barriers at a stretch of
two kilometres (1.2 miles) by the lagoon's entrance.
Venice was flooded 50 times
between 1993 and 2002. That's five times a year!!!!!!!!!
Venice Plans to Raise its Sinking
Buildings as Sea Levels Rise
Terra Daily
by Staff Writers
Venice, Italy (AFP)
Venice is planning to raise its buildings to protect them against rising
sea levels, daily Italian newspaper La Stampa said on
Friday.
Local officials and engineers are planning to
lift buildings under operation "Rialto"
by up to one metre (3.3 feet) using
piston-supported-poles to be placed at the bottom of each structure. This will
take around a month per building if each structure is raised by eight centimetres (3.14 inches) a day.
The mayor of Venice, Massimo Cacciari,
said: "We're pursuing this proposal with great interest."
This project is an alternative to a previous
one nicknamed "Moses", which began in 2003 and is due to end in 2012.
"Moses" is expected to cost around four billion euros (six billion
dollars) under huge plans to build 78 mobile barriers at a stretch of two kilometres (1.2 miles) by the lagoon's entrance.
Those in favour of
"Rialto" claim the project, with an
estimated cost of 2,500 euros (3,800 dollars) per square metre,
will allow Venice,
which sank by 23 centimetres (nine inches) in the
last century, to regain its original look and to preserve its buildings.
Venice was flooded 50 times between 1993 and 2002. The worst
recorded high waters were in November 1966 when the city was submerged by 1.94 metres (6.3 feet) of water, as the rest of Italy was also
battling heavy floods.
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