RECOVERY PLANS
Improvement and rehabilitation of the Venice Lagoon ecosystem - Italy

Client: Venezia  Nuova  Consortium -  Ministry  of Public Works

Services: Feasibility study, preliminary design and environmental impact assessment

Period:  1992-1995

Construction cost:  € 235,504,346

The project:
In the context of the Project for the protection of Venice and its Lagoon from the devastating effects of high tides, one of the major problems to be dealt with is that of the increasing pollution of the lagoon water, with its consequences on the physical and biological environment.

The Project undertaken by TECHNITAL has as the primary objective the understanding of the causes of environmental deterioration and the identification of possible interventions to reduce the widespread water pollution and to restore the natural conditions of the ecosystem to acceptable levels in the shortest time possible.

In this regard the following activities were performed:

• detailed description of the environmental situation of the lagoon, including animal and vegetable life, sediment and water quality, morphological features;

• preliminary analysis of interventions needed to improve the environmental conditions (oxygenation of the water column, creation of artificial wetlands to reduce pollutants, dredging, recreation of natural marshlands and tidal flats, etc.);

• preliminary and final design of priority interventions;

• definition of management scheme to control and monitor the lagoon environment.
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