Val Canale Valley is located in the Italian Julian Alps, in the North Eastern corner of Friuli Venezia Giulia Region. On 29th August 2003 the area has been invested by a strong intensity rainfall event (Pontebba’s rain gauge station, recorded the highest rainfall depths: 389,6 mm in 12 hours, characterised by return periods in the 200 and 500 years for 12-h periods) that caused the death of two persons, 300 displaced and 260 damaged houses and substantial damages to infrastructures that were made unavailable for several days. The mobilization of more than a thousand of landslides occurred along the sides of the involved valley.
