FLORENCE, ITALY – An initial estimate of the damage created by a 200-meter-long hole that opened up May 25, 2016 in the Lungarno in Florence is of five million euros, Mayor Dario Nardella has said.
Nardella said that public water utility Publiacqua will pay for damages incurred:
«First we’ll start and Publiacqua will put the money in, then we’ll see what the government can do to help us,» Nardella said.
The mayor has said the hole appears to have been caused by a burst water pipe in the Lungarno aqueduct. Nobody was injured in the incident, which occurred on Lungarno Torrigiani, between Ponte Vecchio and Ponte alle Grazie bridges.
The Florence city council has decided to lower some taxes for one year on businesses in the area of Lungarno Torrigiani where the sinkhole is located, not far from the Ponte Vecchio.
Nardella vowed to repair the huge sinkhole by November 4, the 50th anniversary of a catastrophic flood in the Tuscan capital. He said the emergency work should be completed by the end of September.
In the meanwhile, images from international satellites will be used to probe the causes of the huge sinkhole that opened up on Florence’s Arno embankment, Florence University researcher Nicola Casagli said Friday.
Casagli is already using radar similar to that used after the Costa Concordia disaster to monitor underground movements in the area. He said the analysis of the satellite images should be completed today, Saturday May 28, 2016.
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