The project creates quite a bit of dug-out material, so much that you can get paid quite a lot if you can take a few hundred thousand m³. I know a farmer that

The project creates quite a bit of dug-out material, so much that you can get paid quite a lot if you can take a few hundred thousand m³. I know a farmer that used this to fill up a small, steep valley with nothing much in there, and then create a field on-top they can use for herding animals, growing hay while being relatively easy to access (a good chunk of farms in South Tyrol are quite steep to begin with). With the money they get from taking over excavation material they can not only pay the work for creating that field, but even turn a small net-even. Communes, Province and the State do not easily allow such things though, IIRC helping geological safety (think mud slide, avalanche avoidance) there was a key point of accepting the project (but I got no hard source on that, sorry).