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CA VENDRAMIN

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©Sandro Santioli

This building was responsible for the drainage of the Consortium area and was supported by two secondary water plants positioned further downstream: the Argana and Cappellona water pumps. These two relatively minor pumps were powered by electricity generated across at Cà Vendramin through a dedicated steam-electric power station.Incidentally, this was the most salient technological feature related to the reclamation of the Ariano site. In fact, the project was a groud-breaking one for its time and, in that period, was the only one of its kind in Italy.As a result, it became a pioneering case-study in hydraulic engineering at several US universities.The aforementioned reclamation work was carried out between 1886 and 1900 under the guidance of Rovigo’s leading Civil Engineers assisted by Antonio Zecchettin of Castelleone, the engineer at the helm of some of the project’s major phases and ultimately in charge of its direction.The construction of the walls and assembly of the fleet of machinery housed within the waterworks complex took place between 1900 and 1903. Unlike the two minor water pumps which were electrified at the source, those at Cà Vendramin were entirely steam-powered.The cost of coal became prohibitive for many industries during and after the First World War, and, as a result, the fires used for steam production had to be fed by timber and reed, raw material choices which were unsustainable in the medium- to long-term.As a consequence, in 1921, many of the plants transitioned towards full electrification.Over the following decades, the efficiency of the Cà Vendramin pumping plant gradually declined – a fact that was accelerated by the subsidence that took place from the 1950s toward the end of the 1960s and, during a massive operation known as “The Re-Repair”, the consortium carried out a complete replacement of the Ca Vendramin facitily with the Goro waterworks plant.

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