Water returns to Cogne... and this time it is drunk boiled

The municipal aqueduct, damaged by the flood on Saturday night, has been restored.While the evictions continue:over a thousand people were taken away by helicopter

COGNE – Water has returned to Cogne, from the taps.THE'municipal aqueduct, damaged by the flood on the night between Saturday and Sunday, was in fact restored but as a precaution thewater should be boiled before its use for food use.

Security operations continue. Today another 300 people will be evacuated by helicopter. As of yesterday, a total of 853 people had left the country.Four helicopters worked Regional civil protection with the technicians on board Aosta Valley Alpine Rescue, one of the Financial police, one of Fire brigade and two gods Carabinierthe.
Meanwhile, work continues for a slow return to normality with the restoration of the connection along the regional road to Cogne, interrupted in three points, and evaluations of the technical solutions, times and costs are underway.The road will be restored by this morning Lillaz, while for Valnontey A track has been made for excavation and emergency vehicles.In the morning, the Minister of Civil Protection was unbalanced, but not too much, on the restoration times. Nello Musumeci, from Sky Tg 24.In reference to the regional road he said:“That artery, which is important and strategic, I fear cannot be put in order and made passable in the space of a month”.

While action was taken on the unexpected quantity of water that rained on Cogne in a few hours Deborah Bionaz, tourism councilor of the small town.“In six hours, 90 millimeters of water fell on the area, which is something extraordinary.The forecasts were more optimistic."She said this speaking to the microphones of Radio Cusano Campus, guest of the in-depth program "L'Italia s'è desta", hosted by the director of the radio newspaper Gianluca Fabi and Roberta Feliziani, to talk about the storm that isolated the country in the night between Saturday and Sunday.“The forecasts - says the councilor - gave a yellow alert, which in any case is a moderate alert, this is because a storm was expected on Saturday afternoon.In recent years, thanks to climate change, forecasts in the mountains are becoming increasingly difficult and the weather is increasingly variable".As for the damages, "we are a tourist resort, it is obvious that for us they will be enormous, because it still means having lost if not the entire season, at least the entire month of July.Now we are trying to understand how to organize ourselves."