Professional and consulting of public, civil and water engineering
| Funding | CASSA PER IL MEZZOGIORNO - Former AGENSUD - Regione Calabria |
| Client | Consorzio di bonifica Raggruppati di Catanzaro (CZ) |
| Title | Rizzuto Cape Irrigation Scheme (10,000 Ha - 9 lots) |
| Value of Project | € 60,000,000 |
| Services provided | Feasibility and final designs, work supervision |
| Years | 1973 - 2001 |
| Progress of works | Operative |
The Isola Capo Rizzuto irrigation scheme, in Catanzaro and Crotone districts, encompasses an irrigated land area of 10.000 Ha (Photo 1) under the jurisdiction of Consorzio di Bonifica Alli Punta delle Castella dei raggruppati di Catanzaro e Crotone. Subdivided in 6 irrigational lots, all of which are currently operative, it is fed by lake Ampollino's water which, passing through Sila hydroelectric plants, flows into Tacina river (4 m3/s).
Originating from Tacina weir (310 m a.s.l.), a long siphon reaches Cutro surge tower (215 m a.s.l.) which disconnects the upstream siphon from the downstream canal itself (DN 1600-800 mm). It is this 20 km long channel that serves the irrigation lots of the CU sector and, through St. Anna Tower (Photo 2; h= 35 m), the homonymous seasonal crown reservoir as well (17 m3; 174 m a.s.l.), which serves, through SA spilling basin (156 m a.s.l.), the low-lying area SA. The canal then divides and the two branches reach two surge towers CU8 (202 m a.s.l.; h=30 m) and CU10 (Photo 5; 199 m a.s.l.; h=50 m) bound to support the piezometrics of the uphill irrigational lots and to feed the compensation basins below, serving the last two districts.
Studio de Vito-CESECO INTERNATIONAL srl delivered both the irrigation scheme for the area spreading below Cutro surge tower and the detailed design of the whole area. In 2001 the hydraulic regulatory surveys were prepared together with the detailed design inclusive of maintenance and remote control issues.
Related publications: L. de Vito, A. Ottolino, A. Proia, Regolazione automatizzata, non meccanizzata negli impiangi irrigui, in III Convegno Nazionale A.I. Genio Rurale, Catania, 18/19 maggio, 1979;
L. de Vito, A. de Vito, Dall'automatismo al Teleimpianto, in Controllo di grandi impianti idrici per un migliore utilizzo delle acque, in Convegno Nazionale dell'Associazione Idrotecnica, Taormina, 11-12-13 aprile 1998.
1956 - 2024: 68 years
experience in water engineering
Selected projects & works
Water engineering consulting firm in Rome, hydroelectric plants, dams and weirs, aqueducts and sewages
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