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Milan, November 27 2019 - The municipal operations center (Coc) was activated due to the rising levels of the Seveso and Lambro rivers. In fact, in the last few hours, although the rainfall is not so intense, the ground, already stressed by the bad weather of recent days, is unable to drain the waters of the rivers which have therefore swelled. The Civil Protection teams, MM Water Services and the local police patrols have activated monitoring and in the last few minutes they have recorded that the Lambro is in pre-alarm and the Seveso in the first alarm threshold.

We remind you that to stay updated on hydrogeological risk alerts, the Administration has developed a free and fast online service with which citizens can be quickly notified of the alerts issued by the Lombardy Region (yellow, orange or red code for hydraulic risk or strong storms) , on the achievement of the warning and flood thresholds of the Seveso torrent and the Lambro river, on the return to normality of the situation and on the behavior to be adopted in these cases. The objective is to simultaneously and promptly notify all those who may be interested, a few hours in advance in the event of a weather alert and when the critical event is approaching, i.e. when the criticality thresholds of the Seveso and Lambro are exceeded . These communication methods will now be added to the information distributed through the press, social media and through the Civil Protection teams.

This alert system involves online registration in which the user can report one or more addresses of interest (from home, to work, to their children's school) to be notified in the event of problems in an area they frequent. habitually. By entering the email address or telephone number in the registration you have the possibility of activating various communication channels: emails, recorded telephone calls which are activated based on the type and level of criticality and based on the addresses of interest registered by the 'user.

The Milan Civil Protection Alert System is a free information service. The first period of activation of the service, until March 2020, is experimental and can be found online on the Municipality's website at: www.comune.milano.it/servizi/sistema-di-allerta-della-protezione-civile or from the web pages of the Civil Protection of Milan.