Pavia Acque: the First Section is Almost Complete

The bulldozers and excavators of Pavia Acque are approaching the town of Godiasco to complete the first section of the new water main serving the Staffora Valley.

As scheduled, Pavia Acque has begun work on the first section of the new water transport main, which will connect the areas of the Staffora Valley and provide all municipalities in the area with a new and more modern potable water supply system—both in terms of quantity and quality. The project spans over 18 kilometers and aims to link the lowland areas, which benefit from greater availability of drinking water, with the upper Staffora Valley, a region that particularly in summer experiences a general shortage of potable water resources.

Following the clearing of the old railway route and excavation work between Salice Terme and Godiasco, Pavia Acque’s technicians have begun laying the aqueduct pipeline, alongside ducts for underground utilities and fiber optic cables, all of which will run beneath the future Greenway— the pedestrian and cycling path connecting Voghera to Varzi.

The work, managed by the water service operator of the Province of Pavia, is focused on the right bank of the Staffora stream. The construction has already passed the electrical conversion substation and the former military fuel depot, which was in operation from 1953 until the late 1980s and is now decommissioned. The construction front is currently located near the border between the municipalities of Rivanazzano and Godiasco, where a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the Guard stands.

A few hundred meters from the current work site, in the direction of the town center of Godiasco, the route includes the construction of a wooden bridge. Designed to minimize environmental impact, this structure will safely cross the stream that flows down from the hillside into the Staffora. While it resembles a small ditch for most of the year, this stream can swell rapidly, collecting water running down from the hills.