After the former Sari, ready permission for a second landfill Terzigno, twenty times larger. In the midst of a protected area. And tomorrow back to local management. With the closing of the curtain falls on the fifteen-year commissioner also waste in Campania. From affairs of state, the entire management cycle garbage back to the jurisdiction of local authorities, but gradually with an immediate impact in the budget. Ends up the emergency, even with the rubbish along the roads on the outskirts, a hole in government finances at least 400 million euro and ambitious new projects for the disposal of waste ready for testing. The last concerns the biggest dump ever built in a protected national park, capable of exceeding capacity in the forecast, already exorbitant, 3 million cubic meters. On the side of Vesuvius, a short distance from the towns of Boscoreale Boscotrecase, and Trecase Terzigno, special protection within the Community subject to constraint.
"An abuse of state", according to the president of the Park, Ugo Leone. The fate of this area yesterday discussed in conference services, government representatives, Guido Bertolaso \u200b\u200bas a special commissioner and the assessors for the Environment of Region and provinces. Called also the mayors of the four communities at risk, who have denounced the severe impairment of their territory and threatened to resign. The network of citizens' committees expressed outside Palazzo Salerno in Naples, home of the Undersecretariat waste emergency, showing the contradictions of the floor waste Terzigno. Along the volcanic slopes, in fact, from June 10 is open the former landfill Sari, Pozzelle locations.
not yet operational, the system awaits the decision of the TAR of Lazio, which has welcomed the recent action against the road plan promoted by the Park and Legambiente. The two posts yesterday on the Neapolitan table (the resumption of the landfill has already been authorized and validation of the project for the new) concern to all, regardless of the political colors. The environmental impact assessment has been given to researchers at the University of Rome that Pasquale Raia, Head of Protected Areas Legambiente Campania, consider "useless, because left to people who do not know the territory, rather than the technicians of the Park."
The new use of the quarry Vitiello, in fact, has to deal with the particular conditions of the volcanic soil in the years from which they were extracted huge quantities of basalt. Just because you have to be disposed of waste 'as is', and without treatment, needs to be made safe. The geologist Giovanni De Medici, a former consultant in several projects of spillage, predicted that "the differences easily reach the ground water. The volcanic soil, in fact, the work is unsuitable for disposal to the point as to prohibit any construction in that area. " Against the evidence, the prospect of a site able to accommodate all waste Campania for the next decade and put, yes, end the emergency. Article by Dina Galano, Terranews taken from the December 31, 2009. Photo Emergenzarifiuti.it.
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