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Water takes shape in a Pralormo fish ponds, spread all over the Pianalto but more concentrated towards the towns of Carmarthen, Poirino, Pralormo, Alba Turin between the state and the Rio Secco. These reservoirs or semiartificiali, mostly in the vicinity of farms and villages, from the need to collect as much rainwater and sewage can be allocated to irrigation and all'abbeveramento animals. Pralormo fact that almost all municipalities of the plateau is characterized by a lack of streams and isolation from surface waters coming down from the Alps. Fortunately, the character of our clay clay allows the creation of these reservoirs are characterized by excellent seal.


are currently used for irrigation, but even more than in the past for farming hump golden Pianalto Tench (Tinca Tinca) function, hence the name fishpond. The surface of the fish that are suitable for irrigation varies from about 4,000 to 10,000 square meters., While the size of their catchment area only two out of the ordinary and should be considered separately: the lake of the Thorn and to Ternavasso (located in neighboring City of Poirino). For their implementation is also exploited natural depressions that were struck on the remaining sides. The average depth of no more than 2:50 to 3:00 m. because on one hand it promotes better collection of water for irrigation on the other a deeper hurt livestock.

The Tench (in dialect "Tenco") has a solid body with fins rather short and soft and the caudal fin dull. The scales are minute and the color is variable, it is usually an olive green, yellow-washed, but you see red gold specimens with or without black spots. In fishing for Pralormo are bred there, which differs from other varieties for both appearance and taste of meat: in fact, unlike the tench paddy site or from fish in clay soils less than the plateau, those moguls gold do not taste muddy.

For these particular characteristics, and pursuant to the Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC "on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora, was identified SIC - Site of Community Importance "Fisheries and Lakes Pralormo (IT 1110051) : was identified by the presence of rare aquatic plant species even if not organized in well defined populations and the presence of breeding and migratory waterfowl and breeding sites for many amphibians.

At this point it is necessary to draw attention on the Thorn Lake , which borrows its name from the eponymous Santuario della Spina. The first work on building the lake began in 1827 on the initiative of Count Vincenzo Sebastiano Beraudo, but unfortunately these early works were lost: go back this year to the Letters Patent issued August 28, 1827 by Her Majesty Carlo Alberto, with which it was declared a public utility of the work and approved the rules for "good governance of the reservoir water."

Nevertheless, the ambitious project to create a reservoir to irrigate the surrounding fields and was not abandoned a few years later on the initiative of Count Carlo Beraudo and Marquis Ferrero della Marmora, consignor of Pralormo, it resumed its work.

The direction of these was entrusted to the hydraulic Barabino Knight, who created a work of enormous prestige not only in size but also for the ingenious mechanism of which endowed the irrigation reservoir.

it was built a dam 20 meters high in bulk material , cross the small valley of the Rio Torto and able to contain more than 1,000,000 m3 of water : Lake is a reservoir elongated shape that, in the upstream portion, is divided into two branches, one volgente south, the other north. The maximum size reached circa 1 km di lunghezza , e 200 m di larghezza nel punto più ampio. Il fondo dell’invaso si trova ad una quota inferiore ai 281 m s.l.m., mentre la quota di coronamento raggiunge i 295,20 m s.l.m.

Sul lato sud dell’invaso si trova lo sbocco della galleria di derivazione delle acque del rio Riserasco . La galleria si presenta costruita in mattoni per uno sviluppo complessivo di circa 150 metri. Risalendo l’alveo del rio Riserasco, dopo un percorso di circa 600 metri, si incontra una seconda galleria datata anno 1901 ( galleria di Montà ), costruita in mattoni ed in parte rivestita in calcestruzzo; a sua volta questa seconda galleria (lunga 600 metri) raccoglie le acque drenate da un canale di gronda capace di raccogliere gli scoli dei soprastanti versanti a partire dalla località S. Vito di Montà d’Alba (CN).

Le citate opere di adduzione delle acque consentirono di realizzare un sistema di irrigazione che tramite un galleggiante raccoglieva solo l’acqua più superficiale “più fertile e tiepida”, evitando di tagliare la diga tutte le volte che fosse necessario irrigare.

Dopo l’alluvione del 1994 e i danneggiamenti alla diga in terra battuta, il livello del bacino viene mantenuto basso for safety reasons. The construction works of the organs of discharge under the current regulations will be completed in 2010, again allowing the maximum capacity of the reservoir.