Description
The lands of Alto Milanese are subject of
periodic drought because of permeable soil, pebby and gravelly: for this reason
the water, infiltrating in the subsoil, lets arid and not much cultivable
surface.
Thank to the project of the
engineer Eugenio Villoresi wtihin 1881 and 1891was realised indeed a canal –
Villoresi canal – that, bringing its water from
In yhe past, the canal was
used for the transport of materials (above all gravel) and had the function of
feeding rice, mulberry, corn and meadows coltures; today is only employed in
that of corn and meadows. From the main canal branch off to the South secondary
and tertiary canals, as that that water
Deepening
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