«Damage for 10 million just for the lost sand»- Corriere.it

«Damage for 10 million just for the lost sand»- Corriere.it


For days the president of the Rimini Nord lifeguards cooperative Giorgio Mussoni it doesn't stop removing the debris accumulated on the sand. He is 86 years old but, he says immediately, "here it's a game of strength". In his bathing establishment, in the Viserba area, the remains of the rivers have invaded all the rows of umbrellas. "I'll have to replant them all, there were more than 200. Many were swept away by the huge amount of water, others we had to pull them down to let the shovels go through," he says. So he admits: "When it rained hard I was here, it's shivering." Trembling because the shores of the Riviera have been swallowed up by debris. The storm, he specifies, created gullies between the road and the shoreline. In the sea float tree trunks at least "thirty meters" long, whole plants. “I also saw a dead sheep. Rivers carry everything down. And it all ends up on the beaches. We are the street sweepers of Italy».

The first estimates of the damages

Mussoni tries to estimate the economic damage of the flood in Emilia-Romagna: "In some bathing establishments it is difficult to see the sea, to take everything away it takes from 20 to 50 trucks". In his opinion, the situation is still "very serious". Now the priority is to find places to store waste and then dispose of it. But it takes time. Yet optimism is not lacking: «We will have enough time to redo everything, at the end of May we need to be ready to welcome customers. We will clean day and night.' Less than 20 kilometers away, the president of the lifeguards cooperative of Cesenatico, Simone Battistoni, just finished a meeting to start the bulldozers. Battistoni is optimistic: «We are recovering. We have largely cleaned the wood and tomorrow some beaches will be ready». While he looks at the sea, which today, he says several times, is "splendid", "the waters are clean, splendid", he tries to estimate the collective damage. So he says: «If we consider that a cubic meter of sand costs an average of 10-11 euros, for the entire region it would take at least 10 million to get back the one "eaten" by the storm" ». But it is a theoretical fact, because he says it frankly: "Nobody will bring it and now we have to make do".



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