(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 09 - A super map for the reconstruction of the areas of the earthquake in central Italy is coming quickly.
This is thanks to the launch of an ad hoc study, "ready in five to six months instead of the usual four years", dedicated to the fragility of the territory and the need to establish where and what to rebuild.
It is also the heart of an agreement signed today by the extraordinary commissioner for the reconstruction of the 2016 earthquake Giovanni Legnini and the secretary general of the Central Apennine District Basin Authority Erasmo D'Angelis;
project involving some universities in the area and the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (Ispra).
"Once we have received the study - observes Legnini - we will define where we can or cannot reconstruct and which works to mitigate the hydrogeological risk to carry out. We have important resources, with which we will finance important interventions to combat hydrogeological instability. Building elsewhere is a painful decision that we will take only after having known everything there was to know and tried everything possible to secure those places "because" behind these decisions there are stories of communities and people that we must never forget ".
There are 290 areas affected by hydrogeological instability - it is explained during the online conference for the signing of the agreement - which concern some urban centers of the crater of the 2016 earthquake;
then there are 295 landslides that interfere with the reconstruction areas, between landslides initiated from scratch by the earthquake and landslides already known and which the tremors have reactivated.
This is why it is thought that there may be territories that could be excluded from reconstruction, and others where it can be done safely.
The study - D'Angelis points out - will be "ready within five six months, when usually it would take three and a half years four".
In this way, with reconstruction "we can make a qualitative leap. This is the first European area in which there will be knowledge of all the risks: we want to identify, for the fastest and safest possible reconstruction, the areas most at risk , those at lower risk, and those in which reconstruction can be started quickly.We will do it by fielding a hundred technicians and our technological platform with satellite controls, sensors, field monitoring, and the enormous experience of Ispra. We are a country in which out of 12 million buildings there are between 4 and 5 million that can collapse even for an unimportant earthquake - says D'Angelis - we have tools and resources to ensure safety ".
