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It extends in the local occupied by roadway and the other end to the lateral of the valley, where a great part of the wall was destroyed. The reservoir created by the dam warehoused approximately 125 cubic metres (4,400 cu ft) of water. The channel from the structure extends 1,300 metres
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In 1728, construction began on a new aqueduct that devastated part of the Roman in the area of "crags" because the dam was seen as unnecessary, given the abundance of possible sources of capture in the basin. The smaller buildings erected there, the
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