In the past few days, at the Mosul Dam, a complex audit work was carried out on the reconstruction of a bridge, led by a mountaineering team of Task Force "Praesidium" in favor of the staff of the US Army Corps of Engineers (US Army Corps Engineers).
A team of instructors and rescue team commanders of the 3rd Alpine Regiment collaborated with some US military technicians, creating a complex double-rope aerial passage, over 30 meters long, under the roadway that runs along the top of the hydraulic infrastructure. The work served to verify and evaluate the status of the work carried out and the overall safety level of the structure.
The bridge, placed above the spillway - the drainage channel used to provide the controlled release of dam flows in case of full - had been damaged in August of the 2014. It was subsequently repaired, but the constructive features of the structure and the ground clearance had prevented the full check of the underside and the consequent definitive homologation.
The team of the 3 ° regiment has worked to achieve and secure the aerial passage, using techniques and procedures typical of mountain troops, but in a different environment. This confirms the complete adaptability and duplicity of use of military procedures.
Italy participates with the mission First Parthica, a contributor after the US, to the "Inherent Resolve" operation against international terrorism with military 1500 belonging to all the Armed Forces, employed at Baghdad and Erbil sites in the training of Kurdish Security Forces (Peshmerga) and Iraq. Also, with a Task Group aircraft stationed at the Erbil airport, ensures the entire Coalition, the capacity of Personal Recovery (PR) in the northern quadrant of the Iraqi theater.
Within this mission, the Praesidium Task Force, with its 500 men and women of the Italian Army, guarantees the safety of the dam where the Italian firm TREVI SPA is working to secure the hydraulic infrastructure and ward off the risk of an environmental catastrophe.
