Environment & land management, use of tubular textile geofilters for dewatering sediments dredged from man-made lakes


During the late 1950s, a weir was built across the River Fortore, near the town of Carlantino in Apulia, creating the largest man-made basin in Italy and the second largest in Europe: the Occhito lake (Figure 1). The land around the lake is environmentally typical of Pre-Apennine areas. The wetland presents the vegetation characteristic of fluvial terrain, with poplar groves and Mediterranean brush; the fauna of the area is also rich and varied.