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1862 - COMP. GEN. DEI CANALI ITALIANI D'IRRIGAZIONE - 1 AZIONE - TORINO
1862 - COMP. GEN. DEI CANALI ITALIANI D'IRRIGAZIONE - 1 AZIONE - TORINO

1862 - COMP. GEN. DEI CANALI ITALIANI D'IRRIGAZIONE - 1 AZIONE - TORINO

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AZIONE DI 500 LIRE AL PORTATORE

DECRETO REALE 14 SETTEMBRE 1862

The Vercelli land surveyor Francesco Rossi was the first to conceive of its construction in the 1840s. The canal should have originated from the Po at Crescentino. The first project was abandoned, probably because the route would have crossed land owned by Count di Cavour, but the idea was kept, and subsequently the work was entrusted in 1852 to the engineer Carlo Noè by the then President of the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of Sardinia, Count Camillo Benso di Cavour. Carlo Noè's project envisaged the creation of the canal much further upstream, at Chivasso, so that a much larger portion of the plain could be irrigated, including the middle Vercellese, Novarese and Lomellina, even though this would have complicated the design, as it would have had to cross two large rivers, the Dora Baltea and the Sesia. Carlo Noè's project was approved by the Italian Parliament in 1862. Its actual realisation took place at the instigation of the ministers Quintino Sella and Gioacchino Pepoli between 1863 and 1866, after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy and the death of Cavour, and cost approximately 45,000,000 lire.

The Cavour Canal is a work of wonder both for the speed of its construction and the perfection of its construction using only bricks and stones. Today, in spite of technological evolution, a similar work would certainly take longer: suffice it to say that as many as 101 bridges, 210 siphons and 62 canal bridges were built to cross roads and watercourses[citation needed]. It can be said that for several decades the Cavour Canal was the jewel in the crown of Italian and European hydraulic engineering, so much so that it is still considered the greatest hydraulic engineering work ever completed in Italy.

Until 1977, its management was entrusted to the General Administration of State-owned irrigation canals, which, through a temporary concession, availed itself of the collaboration of the consortia of end-users in the provinces of Vercelli and Novara, Ovest Sesia and Est Sesia respectively. 

Law 984 of 27 December 1977 ('Quadrifoglio Law') established the transfer of competence over state-owned canals to the Regions (in this case the Piedmont Region). The Cavour Canals Consortium was also established between the two consortia. This body has its administrative headquarters in Novara and its legal headquarters in Vercelli, and, in addition to the Cavour canal, is responsible for the management of the other canals of common interest in the area. 

To commemorate the designer of the canal, a monument to Carlo Noè was inaugurated on 16 October 1898, created by sculptor Francesco Porzio and placed in Chivasso, on the square to the west of the entrance channel.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, following the same need to restore the waterways, the Napoleonic Barrage, which subordinated the course of the Burana canal to the bed of the Panaro river, and the Cavo Napoleonico, or spillway of the Reno river, in Emilia-Romagna, were designed and only much later built.

During the flood that hit the upper Piedmont region in October 2020, the canal-bridge structure that allows the Cervo torrent to cross was seriously damaged by the latter's flood wave. 

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Torino
Year of issue
1862
Nation of issue
Regno d'Italia
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R5
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S4
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