Rotonda Night

Here we see the floods of this year, who knows what the floods of the decade are: the flooding of the Rotonda fountain, detected last Wednesday and, according to first impressions, caused by a flood of a meter and a half deep at the height of the Valilla River as it passes through the heart of the capital. What is abnormal, as the consul warned, is not the flow of the river this year, but the flow of last year, which was unusually low for this time of year. In any case, being a mountain river, prudence, common sense and good professional practice should have foreseen this event. Clearly this is not the case, and the result is that the funds are infinitely empty. No one knows when they will be back in operation, and the optional management solution – to remove the pumps and give them to the supplier – would leave the parish without water at the height of the summer. The only good news – or the only good news – is that the work was delivered last June 29, within the guaranteed year. By a hair, but inside. It is chilling to think what kind of work the commune would have done if the Valilla flood had occurred a month later, instead of last week. Remember that the transformation of the rotunda, with the fountain as the backbone of the project, cost 4.2 million dollars and added considerable garbage bins. The current public team, which voted against it when it was in opposition and saw it as a place to attract tourists, proved to be gracefully not targeted against the previous company, but at least Vigilante’s mistake was his.