Vita gazette – The Mose mobile dam system worked even in extreme weather conditions. The work averted disaster by stopping a record tide and leaving the city dry.

Outside the port mouth of the Lido, 2 meters above sea level are exceeded. But the lagoon is intact, and with it the historic center of Venice: the system of mobile dams worked even in extreme weather conditions

The weather conditions are like those of the disastrous flood of 2019, but this time there are protective dams. If it had not been for the Mose, the system of mobile dams between the Venetian lagoon and the Adriatic Sea built to protect Venice from high tides, today there would probably have been major floods in the city due to the bad weather that is affecting Northern Italy. All four of the Mose barriers were raised on Monday afternoon and then again at 2am on Tuesday, and they were effective: there are no flooded areas in Venice,

In general, the Mose barriers make it possible to maintain the sea level in Venice within 90 centimeters above the average level: used for the first time in October 2020, they are activated when, according to forecasts, the tide should exceed 110 centimeters.

The Mose is a colossal system of four retractable dams, a work of engineering unique in the world, designed starting in the 1980s. It is made up of 78 mobile sluice gates that rest on the bottom of the three inlets, the arms of the sea that join the Adriatic with the lagoon.