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| Wednesday, January 5, 2011 16:15 Written by Lisa Vagnozzi |
 2010 that has just ended will also remembered as a year of rains and floods , which have also affected some Italian regions like Veneto . A closer look, however, reading the news in recent years, are too often of similar incidents, where the force of nature , accomplices in many cases the ' building wild deforestation and indiscriminate , caused considerable damage, even by the victims. What to do then to protect our cities and our homes from a wound that continues to occur with regularity and systematic impressive? First, it is important built in compliance with the law, the surrounding environment and common sense . Therefore, you should come up with lasting and sustainable solutions . An interesting indication in this sense comes from the United Kingdom: England and Wales, in fact, a house in six at-risk flood , so that the government allocates every year millions of pounds for protective and safety measures. In particular, the area of \u200b\u200bthe city of Pickering , in the northern part of North Yorkshire, is regularly hit by devastating floods , the last of which occurred in 2007. To prevent water damage in the area of \u200b\u200bPickering was inaugurated a pilot project, which aims deal with the problem of floods with techniques and strategies directly inspired by Mother Nature . The starting point of the project is finding a disarming in its simplicity: the urban settlements too often distort the landscape, eliminating the natural elements that may help prevent or at least to contain flooding, and floods. A practical solution, and relatively inexpensive (for placing in the area of \u200b\u200bsecurity Pickering have been allocated 700 thousand pounds, equivalent to just over € 800 000) is precisely to imitate Nature, planting trees , deflecting in a non-traumatic course of streams and small dams, levees and drawing debris from wood, so as to strengthen the soil, combating soil erosion and contain as much as possible the forces of the overflowing water, softening before it can reach the town.  The Pickering pilot project was launched in April of 2009, with the collaboration of local and national authorities, of ' University of Durham Authority and the North York Moors National Park . The experiment has a duration of two years and do prove effective, the same techniques and strategies will be extended to other critical areas of the United Kingdom. A this link found a BBC report last October that describes the project and shows the solutions to Pickering. |
