Caldogno Flood Control Basin

Relaxing dirt roads that run alongside the Timonchio river and circumnavigate the Caldogno lamination basin, walking above the banks, in beautiful countryside with the skyline of the Little Dolomites and the Asiago Plateau: ideal tour on foot, running, by bike or on horseback .The lamination basins are large areas - in this case depressed fields - intended to temporarily accumulate excess river water, to avoid floods and floods downstream: when the watercourse exceeds the alert level, bulkheads are opened 'intake', to discharge part of the flow into these enormous tanks; it's basically a controlled flood. Once the danger is over and the level is normalized, the water is progressively released into the river, through the opening of 'discharge' bulkheads.The Caldogno basin, in particular, composed of two basins ('casse') created in the open countryside, regulates the water flow of the Timonchio river, before it flows into the Bacchiglione a little further downstream, to safeguard the metropolitan area of Vicenza. It was built, part of a large hydraulic safety project of the Veneto Region, after the exceptional flood events of 2010.misaitalia.it/prodotti/10/49

The flood lamination basin of the Timonchio, in Caldogno, in the Vicenza area, is the first of a series of interventions necessary for the hydraulic safety of the territory from the floods of the Timonchio - Bacchiglione. The reservoir makes it possible to laminate the peak flow rates of the Timonchio stream in Caldogno, cutting the flood wave by filling a volume of 3.8 million cubic meters of water, so that a flow rate compatible with the capacity of the course arrives downstream. water so as to avoid the overflows and floods that have occurred in recent years, especially in Caldogno and Vicenza.