Resinex has projected and created an innovative signalling system for the night navigation in the river canal of Aussa Corno and in the canal of the Marano Lagoon, which link to the open sea Port of Nogaro, near Udine, northern Venice.
In the past, the night navigation was forbidden for safety reasons, while now, the new plant of signalisation increases the commercial capacity of the whole area.
The system is composed of 48 light signals placed on wooden pipes and of a signalling beacon positioned in the open sea and equipped with a Racon and with a 6 Nm lantern. Client is a government company, the Consortium for the Industrial Development of Aussa Corno.
Before projecting the system, a deep analysis of the environmental impact has been necessary.
As a matter of fact, these lights shine on the habitat of the birds which nest in the nearby natural park of the Lagoon.
In fact, Marano Lagoon, represents the first big zone (before reaching the sea), for the migrant birds coming from Central and North Europe.
It is populated by birds belonging to the most diversified species, from the most common such as gooses, gulls, turtle-doves, barn owls, owls, wood-pigeons, cuckoos, magpies, thrushes, mute swans, herons, to the rarest ones such as wetland hawks and terns.
Thanks to its richness in ornithology, the lagoon, in 1979 was declared protected area of international value.
The study has run Resinex to the manufacturing of special signals, darkened for 180° towards the external side of the canal in order not to disturb the birds during the night lighting.
Moreover, to respect the environment and to avoid a light pollution, it has been provided the whole system with a remote control lighting, which does not start automatically by a crepuscular photocell at night.
In this way, it has been possible to reduce considerably the eventual disturb caused by lights, which through the remote control are turned on by pilots only at the incoming or outbound passages of the vessels towards Port of Nogaro.
Besides the pilots, the system is completely remote controlling, also from the operations plant based in the offices of the Nogaro Port Authority.
From the very same operations station is also possible to monitor the whole system, checking every instant the efficiency state of the lanterns, batteries and solar panels which power them.
The signals are composed of a telescopic steel structure, with an adjustable base, which has allowed to align the lanterns also against different heights of the wooden pipes.
