Water use of the Campolattaro Reservoir and enhancement of water supply for the Benevento area

Overview

The PFTE of the Water use of the Campolattaro Reservoir and the strengthening of the power supply for the Benevento area, represents a phase of the project development of one of the strategic and priority projects defined by the “Plan of interventions for the improvement  of Regional Water System ” approved with the Resolution of the Regional Council of Campania n. 340/2016 and framed in the general plan of aqueducts 2008 of the Campania Region.

The works in the project constitute an important public infrastructure work in the area aimed at integrating and enhancing the drinking water supplies of  an area equivalent to that of the province of Benevento with a population of over 200,000 inhabitants.

The project pursues important economic, social and environmental purposes, such as:

• Satisfies the drinking water needs of significant districts of the region;
• Modernize, upgrade and rationalize the existing aqueduct network in the area;
• It uses the water resources accumulated by the Campolattaro reservoir in a multiple, rational and sustainable way;
• Eliminates and / or minimizes the current withdrawals from groundwater wells and sources that widely serve the existing aqueducts;
• Eliminates the energy and environmental costs currently required by the lifting systems present in the existing aqueduct network;
• Reduces the energy and environmental costs necessary for water purification with the simultaneous construction of the hydroelectric plant;
•  Significantly reduces water losses from the existing drinking and irrigation network.