Quarry plans in the management of water resources: case study of the River Serio    

This work investigates the possibility of rehabilitating and using volumes made available by the creation of quarries of inert materials in watercourse flood plains for the regulation of floods and for the maintenance of supplies in times of water scarcity. Such activities offer technical and economic synergies between the need for production of inert materials and the benefits that such excavations, given appropriate expedients, can provide both in reducing the flood risk and in mitigating shortages. The work in question fully complies with the terms of the Catchment Area and Water Conservation Plan, demonstrating moreover that the required rehabilitation operations are of low impact and are fully sustainable. The case study concerns the last stretch of the River Serio in the province of Cremona.  This work investigates the possibility of rehabilitating and using volumes made available by the creation of quarries of inert materials in watercourse flood plains for the regulation of floods and for the maintenance of supplies in times of water scarcity. Such activities offer technical and economic synergies between the need for production of inert materials and the benefits that such excavations, given appropriate expedients, can provide both in reducing the flood risk and in mitigating shortages. The work in question fully complies with the terms of the Catchment Area and Water Conservation Plan, demonstrating moreover that the required rehabilitation operations are of low impact and are fully sustainable. The case study concerns the last stretch of the River Serio in the province of Cremona.