Description

Drainage is an endless task making urban areas and agricultural lands, which without hydraulic interventions would naturally be unhealthy and unusable due to persistent flooding, usable to the community.

The Venetia plain has been to a great extent redeemed/restored over many centuries by the work of single inhabitants, communities, monastic orders and states each following the other.

As in the past, the drainage boards, whose activities are provided for and disciplined by specific State and Regional laws, today play an essential role in the hydraulic protection of the territory.

In Veneto there are 20 drainage boards that carry on their daily activity over 1,154,000 hectares managing on intheinterest of the Government and Veneto Region 260 mechanical lifting plants which pump an average a year of 1,700 million cubic metres of water and 13,000 kilometres of drainage channels.