Venice flooded, the government suffered 20 million, but the city fears another tidal peak

Giuseppe Conte leaves Venice guaranteeing that the government will help the city hit by the storm. And immediately, in the afternoon, the CDM resolves the state of emergency and allocates 20 million euros, the first funds for the most urgent interventions in support of the lagoon capital and the population. The prime minister speaks of two phases for the restoration of damages. "The first – he says – will allow us to compensate individuals and commercial operators up to a limit for the first of 5 thousand euros and for the latter of 20 thousand euros". This money "can arrive immediately".

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Venice victim of high water, the Civil Protection: "Numerous offers of help"

"Then – adds Conte – for those who have more substantial damage obviously we will quantify them with more calm and behind technical investigation they can be liquidated", But the Serenissima does not even have time to take a breath. Because, after the sun that brought the San Marco maschives to dry, another exceptional high water is expected tomorrow. The deterioration after a pause was expected. In its bulletin the Civil Protection declared the red alert for tomorrow in some sectors of the Veneto and orange on the province of Bolzano, on part of Friuli Venezia Giulia and on most of the territories of Veneto, Liguria and Tuscany. Venice trembles at the idea of ​​another maxi-wave of tides which, according to the City's Forecast Center, should reach 145 centimeters at 11.20 am, with a serious possibility that the measure could be revised upwards tonight. Other forecasts, like those of Ispra, are pejorative, with an estimate of high water always in the late morning of one meter and 58.

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In short, the emergency for Venice has not yet passed. And the bad weather and the sirocco will not give up during the weekend: Saturday and Sunday will certainly be other high-water days in San Marco. Meanwhile, the Government is also working to put in order the governance cards that deal with Venice and its future. Prime Minister Conte also announced that the inter-ministerial Comitatone for the protection of Venice will be convened on November 26th. "We will also discuss – he specified – governance for the structural problems of Venice, large ships, Moses, and greater coordination between the competent authorities". And right on the Mose comes a step forward from the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure.

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The Minister Paola De Micheli announced the appointment of the super commissioner who will have to follow the completion of the mobile dams. Elisabetta Spitz is the former director of the Agenzia del Demanio, an architect and long-time urban planner, who knows Venice well, having chaired from 1992 to 1999 the consortium for the design of the safeguard of the inhabited areas of the Venetian city. However, the controversy over the Mose that is not there remains high. Sources of the Venezia Nuova Consortium have clarified that "it is not technically possible" under present conditions the lifting, even partial, of the Mose system, even in partial emergency phases. A hypothesis put forward some time ago by the former provider of public works, and which is not part of the institutional tasks of the Cvn police station.

Venice victim of high water, the Civil Protection: "Numerous offers of help"

In any case, the lifting of a part of the dams would not save the lagoon from exceptional high water. In the city the tidal damage count continues; a precise calculation – in addition to the estimate of hundreds of millions made by the mayor Brugnaro – is not yet possible. "Yesterday we made a first survey exclusively for the state property and in large part they all had damage to the ground floors" said Emanuela Carpani, superintendent of Archeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for Venice and the lagoon. "Fortunately – he added – there were no damages to the heritage of museum, archival and book collections. We are collecting a first estimate ».

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