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Town on the shores of Lake Como in northern Italy ordered to pay a fine for its “noisy” waterfallIt was formed over millions of years and has been a tourist attraction for centuries, but a spectacular waterfall in Italy has divided local opinion after it was ruled to be too noisy.The town of Bellano, on the shores of Lake Como, has been slapped with a fine by an environmental authority after local residents complained that its thundering cascades were so loud they could not watch television without closing their windows.They blamed the council for the problem because the water flow of the torrent is used to power a small hydroelectric plant and can be regulated artificially.An unusually wet summer around Lake Como, which William Wordsworth acclaimed as “a treasure which the earth keeps to itself”, has aggravated the problem.
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