The dams of Rio Grande's basin (Amelia TR)

The research concerns the two dams located in the basin of the Rio Grande stream at the foot of the Amelia's Acropolis. These structures, whose origins are partially attributable to the interventions of Roman Emperor Aurelian, are due to poor maintenance interventions in the seventies that led to the closure of the original bottom outlets that have changed the hydraulic infrastructure leading it to lose its original function. Central is the complex regulatory framework in which these goods fall so exceptional: because dams are higher than 15 meters, since 2004 with a "declaration of state of emergency" have been ascribed with other 12 dams in the Register Italian dams (RID) and after its abolition the dams were entrusted to the Directorate General of dams of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport. After 10 years this condition has brought neither intervention nor planning by the central authorities, which thereby preventing any intervention on the infrastructure, has repeatedly tried to return them to the regional administrative bodies. This complex impasse leads to reflect about the actual safeguard of these historical and the practical possibilities of promoting and protecting those "second nature" that, overcoming the mere functional value, constitutes the identity of the local landscape Italian and European.