As per summer tradition, Councillor Riccio is once again attacking the Administration over the quality of the sea at Lido. The usual demagoguery from someone who pretends not to know that, when it comes to purification, we have carried out—and continue to carry out—an unprecedented job in the city.
It was us who got the Fosso Barbaruzza plant out of the deadlock it had ended up in; it is us who are continuing to build the connections, where the very limited resources available allow us to, working tirelessly to find new ones; it is us who are constantly monitoring the area with the technical office and the local police, proceeding with regular reports in case of illegal dumping of sewage; it is us who are continuing to scour the entire area, intervening on the critical issues we encounter, rebuilding plants from scratch where necessary, as was the case in via Marco Polo; it is us who are carrying out extraordinary maintenance on the lifting pumps, installing new ones where needed; it is us who are fixing the Fiume Busento plant; it was us, with an unprecedented investment, who made the Verghello locality purifier more efficient.
All this just to limit ourselves to the most significant interventions on issues that, in twenty years of government, Riccio and the administrations he supported did not address or only collected failures and quite a few disastrous consequences for the city: the new commissaried purifier, the European sanctions for the huge percentage of unconnected discharges, just to name the two most glaring examples. Does Riccio remember or not the protest sheets for the stench, hung from the balconies of Lido? A stench that had almost disappeared by the summer of 2022, thanks to the first timely maintenance interventions on the plant that Riccio perhaps forgot to urge his “own” city governments to do.
If there were demagoguery shops like there are clothing stores, Riccio could certainly open one and with great chances of success. He promptly changes topics with every change of season and so now we are at the “summer collection,” where, as classic as a tuxedo, the dirty sea stands out with all the consequences: the coast, tourism, and public health irreparably compromised. Too bad for Riccio that, unlike a real tuxedo that never goes out of style, his rags of demagoguery have tired people out, who are now fed up with always hearing the same things. It is truly ridiculous that Riccio allows himself the luxury of giving lessons. And speaking of clothing stores, let’s close then with the suggestion to the Lega representative to buy a swimsuit from the summer 2025 collection and take a swim in the waters of Lido, which last year were already among the cleanest and are set to repeat the result this year, because on this issue, this Administration will not take a single step back.
Note from city councillor, Igea Caviano