Tivoli, superintendence rejects landfill near Villa Adriana

The Special Superintendence of Rome has definitively rejected the hypothesis of a landfill in Tivoli, near Villa Adriana: in fact, there would not be the conditions for the renewal of the authorizations requested by Daf srl, the company that was supposed to manage the plant, and issued in May 2008. At the time, the company had been allowed to use the Corcolle quarry, near Villa Adriana, as a landfill for inert waste from the excavations for the construction of Rome’s Metro B, with the obligation to redevelop the area’s landscape.

However, the conditions failed in 2008. For the Superintendence’s technicians, “the question of the legitimacy of the pre-existing quarry cannot be considered outdated: because the permanent damage caused by the loss of archaeological assets has generated an interruption of a context of recognized value for the density of the stratifications, which testifies to a singular combination of nature and artifacts from different periods of antiquity and history.” Moreover, again according to the Superintendence, an accurate survey of the plant’s state of affairs was not submitted with an environmental risk report, and still the 2008 permits appealed to an emergency regime that no longer exists.

In the photo, Hadrian’s Villa. Ph. Credit

Tivoli, superintendence rejects landfill near Villa Adriana

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