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Rivers swollen by days of downpours flooded some towns in northern Italy on Tuesday, while in Venice, authorities were preparing to activate a mobile barrier in the lagoon in hopes of sparing the ...
The worst flooding in Venice in more than 50 years prompted calls Wednesday to better protect the historic city from rising sea levels as officials calculated hundreds of millions of euros in damage.
'Experimental Electromechanical Module') is a project intended to protect the city of Venice, Italy, and the Venetian Lagoon from flooding. The project is an integrated system consisting of rows of mobile gates , installed on the seafloor at the Lido , Malamocco , and Chioggia inlets, that can be raised to temporarily seal off the Venetian ...
The 1966 Venice flood (Italian: Alluvione di Venezia del 1966) was an unprecedented high water, known in Venice as an "acqua alta", with waters reaching up to 194 cm. Overview [ edit ]
The flooding caused by the acqua alta is not uniform throughout the city of Venice because of several factors, such as the varying altitude of each zone above sea level, its distance from a channel, the relative heights of the sidewalks or pavements (fondamenta), the presence of full parapets (which act as dams) along the proximate channel, and ...
At least 10 people have been killed and several others are still missing after a sudden rainstorm dumped more than a foot of rain in Marche, Italy, a coastal region in the central part of the ...
Italy: 268: the reservoir breached its dam. 1987: Valtellina disaster: Italy: 53: heavy rain 1994: Piedmont flood: Italy: 77: heavy rain for three days lead to extreme discharge of tributaries of Po river 1997: 1997 Central European flood: Czech Republic, Poland: 114: extensive rain periods 1998: Jarovnice flood: Slovakia: 63: heavy rainfall ...
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