Cagliari, the cemetery of sacks under the sand: the reclamation is slow
The long barrier had been placed in 1995 to stop erosion, then the nourishment had buried the containers
They won't stop until even the last nylon bag is removed from Cagliari 's Poetto. Recovered from the beach that the immense "plastic dam" erected in 1995 had attempted to protect from unstoppable erosion.
The goal was to save the beach which was slowly retreating . The then managers of the Lido had wanted that project (but also of other bathing establishments victims of the same phenomenon), the State Property and the Region had consecrated it, authorized the Superintendency and the Captaincy.
The sacks had been placed between the shoreline and the beach but then, over the years and the inexorable progress of the sea, they had ended up under the sand and under water.
Also buried by the new deposits of sand sucked up from the seabed a few hundred meters from the coast line and unloaded on the Poetto by the Dutch dredger Antigoon during what was soon renamed the «unfortunate nourishment».
At the Lido the reclamation does not stop. Since last year, 1700 bags have already been collected. A company specializing in the disposal of special waste is thinking about it. An inevitably slow work given that the reclamation must follow strict protocols.
Andrew Piras
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