ATO 3 – 4 – 5 Interconnection including the design of the Montefortino (Fermo) water treatment plant
Customer: CIIP – Cicli Idrici Impianti Primari
Years: 2021 – 2022
Activities: Technical and Economic Feasibility Project, Final Design
Project cost: Euro 388.2 mln of works
The objective of this project was to enhance the water supply of the southern area of the Marche Region and to hydraulically connect the aqueduct networks of ATOs 3, 4, and 5, ensuring management flexibility and resilience of the system as a whole that would avoid, or at least significantly reduce over time, the risk of interruption of water supply to users.
Due to the climatic changes currently underway, which cause increasingly frequent periods of drought, and seismic events of significant intensity (such as the 2016 earthquake), which are repeated at least every 20 years and alter the hydrodynamic balances of the territory, the southern area of the Marche Region has, in fact, been subjected to repeated and prolonged shortages in the availability of the water resource, affecting the water flows available for hydropotable uses.
To ensure the diversification of the water resource, the project plans to build two new drinking water plants (the first 400 l/s serving water derived from the Tenna River and Lake Gerosa, the second 200 l/s serving water derived from Lake Caccamo).
The PFTE covered the project in its entirety by including all three ATOs, while the final project for procedural and funding reasons was divided into excerpts and with regard to the drinking water plants included only the one serving the Gerosa/Tenna line.
