Campolattaro Dam - Sections 1-2

Ghella is involved in two of the three sections for the design and execution of works at the Campolattaro Dam, in the province of Benevento. This project is one of the seven national strategic interventions included in the PNRR and involves one of the main water storages in the centre-south of Italy. Designed in the 1960s by the Cassa del Mezzogiorno for irrigation purposes, the construction was stopped, leaving it incomplete and non-operational. Once completed, branch networks will extend from the reservoir to supply water resources to twenty municipalities in the Benevento area and other aqueducts in Campania, aiming to ensure water autonomy for the region. In particular, the first section includes the construction of a diversion tunnel approximately 7.5 km long, building a drinking water plant with a maximum capacity of 3,000 l/s, and a 30,000 m³ storage tank and the commissioning of both a water purification plant and a hydroelectric plant. The second section involves building a drinking water adduction line, an adductor branch line, and related works to upgrade the aqueducts in the Benevento area by laying about 110 km of pipelines with diameters ranging from 400 mm to 1,800 mm.

Benefits

1. Enhanced drinking supply benefiting more than 2.5 million people
2. Irrigation of approximately 15,000 hectares supporting agricultural production