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Italy: Landfill Battaglina, Legambiete Calabria asks municipalities to S.Floro Borgia and to activate the self-defense and stop the work

The following note received by the Press Office: Via certified mail has been sent to the municipalities of San Floro Borgia and a document of over 14 pages with which Legambiente Onlus Calabria argues the request to activate the system of self-defense, law 241/90, consisting of the right to withdraw a document issued by the same or suspend it on its own initiative or third parties as suffering from flaws that make it illegitimate.

 

The document, signed by Anna Parretta, the Center for Legal Action Legambiente Calabria, Andrea Dominijanni, vice president of Legambiente Calabria, Aldo Perrotta, president of the club Heron Catanzaro and Francesca Mendicino, president of the club of Girifalco, enter into the merits of the project called "Island Ecological Battaglina ", highlights the following illegality: the system that must be expressly subject to the law of procedure in Via (Environmental Impact Assessment), according to the document of the Political Department of the Environment - Core VIA-IPPC dated 16.02.2009 , appears to have a "highly negative assessment on the implementation of the work." This document shows the following: the area falls in wooded area affected by Mediterranean resulting from reforestation with eucalyptus trees and large oaks, the 'area has been damaged by fire and the area is far from the river valley just 150 meters from the geomorphological point of view the intervention substantially alter the drainage system of rainwater, and the area is subject to constraint on forest fires and the area is included Seismic cat.  1, the area falls in the agricultural zone (E) and is subject to guardianship bond-forestry waste landfill includes (1 lot from 456,000 cubic meters) also disposal of waste containing asbestos, there may be danger to the inhabitants because of possible dispersion of asbestos fibers from the landfill being the inhabited places of the City of Girifalco Muruttu located 1 km; surveys conducted by the outcropping sedimentary layer is formed deep lithologies comprising mainly conglomerates and sands, at least to a depth of 25 meters investigated resting on clay, the coefficient of permeability of the surfacing material does not reach the level required by law to carry out the project, there is no clarity on the progress of the water deep into the permeable rock types, the site is covered by a surface water system consisting of ditches and edges of incisions with sometimes unstable slopes that would be removed by the works envisaged in the project, the landfill for non-hazardous waste includes (2. lot from 2,480,000 cubic meters) also the disposal of municipal waste not covered by the Plan waste management in the region of Calabria as well as unnecessary, and the realization of the work does not have the characteristics of overriding public interest. "  This is the conclusion of the regional document

 

In Case is a measure AIA (IPPC), which in no way can be considered a substitute for the EIA and otherwise contains detailed requirements in relation to the system is not fulfilled.  It is also stressed in the document that the facility is not authorized by the Superintendence for Architectural Heritage and Landscape.

 

These are the environmental assessment but the plant is devoid not only of the features necessary for its implementation, but also those relating to the authorization of the year.

 

It is shown that the area is burdened by civic use and which is subject to five constraints inhibitors absolute established the State Forestry Corps.

 

All elements that justify the request for suspension of the proceedings of the two municipalities.  Only in this way will be able to bring back and restore legality as the Aarhus Convention stipulates the citizens' right to transparency and participation in decision-making in matters relating to the environment.

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