The Campania Region has allocated funding for environmental investigations at the former landfill in Largo Croce, in Casalduni, in the province of Benevento. The news was reported by NTR24 on 29 October 2026.
The funding is intended to support technical and environmental studies at the old municipal disposal site. The exact amount, the regional funding measure, the timetable, and the detailed technical scope of the investigations were not independently verifiable from the available reporting, and will require confirmation from the regional act or municipal documents.
A site beside the town
The Largo Croce site is a former municipal landfill located close to Casalduni's built-up area.
According to previously published reporting on the site, it was used as a landfill during the 1970s and 1980s. Its proximity to the town centre is one reason its environmental condition and long-term safety remain a matter of local attention.
Readers should note that the available sources do not specify which environmental media the new investigations will cover — for example, soil, groundwater, or landfill gas — and that point remains to be clarified.
A separate safety project worth knowing about
Separately from the newly announced investigation funding, regional funding of almost 3 million euros was previously reported for permanent safety works at the same former landfill.
That earlier project concerned the physical stabilization of the site, including foundation piles intended to stabilize the slope. The relationship between that permanent-safety project and the newly funded environmental investigations is not fully documented in the sources available so far.
In practical terms, investigations and safety works answer different questions: investigations describe the environmental condition of a former landfill, while safety or remediation works address physical stability and containment. Whether the new studies are preparatory, complementary, or independent of the earlier project has not been confirmed.
Part of a wider Sannio waste strategy
Casalduni is part of wider regional and provincial efforts to reorganize waste-management infrastructure in the Sannio area.
A 2024 institutional agreement involving the Campania Region and the Province of Benevento mobilized more than 43 million euros for waste-cycle infrastructure in the area, including interventions at the STIR in Casalduni. That broader context does not change the limited details available about the Largo Croce investigations, but it helps explain why former and active waste sites around Casalduni continue to receive administrative and financial attention.
What to watch next
For residents and readers following this story, the next useful documents will be the regional funding act and any municipal notice describing the investigation plan for the Ex discarica comunale di Largo Croce, Casalduni.
Those should clarify the amount awarded, the investigation methods and environmental targets, the schedule, and how the work relates to the previously reported slope-stabilization project. No independently verified source has yet confirmed the outcome of the investigations or any formal change in the site's administrative or environmental status.
