- "The urgent measures are undoubtedly to remove those pollutants that come to school through runoff whenever it rains, we can not allow the beginning of the school year, and children are playing on a land that is contaminated, we understand Which both the City Council and the Community can not close for vacation and have to offer a preventive solution for the tranquility of parents, teachers and students, "said regional deputy Juan José Molina.
- "The local Citizens' spokesperson in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, has stated that" the local representatives in this deputation are making a titanic effort to send their claims to all public institutions, and all political formations;
Are struggling for the survival of these populations who feel abandoned after years of mining. "
Cartagena, Thursday, August 3.
Citizen MPs in the Regional Assembly, Juan José Molina, and Luis Fernández, together with the Municipal Group spokesman, Manuel Padín, today visited the facilities of the two centers of the San Ginés de la Jara school in the Llano del Beal;
The orange retinue has been accompanied by different neighborhood groups, the AMPA, and members of the Provincial Board of the Deputation.
According to the neighbors, the most prevailing need is to eliminate heavy metal contamination in the school soil before September and have assured that they will carry out demonstrations if the school year begins and the first preventive work is not carried out to remove contaminated soil and ensure the Cleaning the environment.
In this sense, Juan José Molina has assured that "the urgent measures are undoubtedly to remove those pollutants that arrive at the school through the runoff whenever it rains, we can not allow the beginning of the school year, and that the children are Playing on a land that is contaminated, we understand that both the City Council and the Community can not close for vacation and have to offer a preventive solution for the tranquility of parents, teachers and students.
The Community itself, through the General Directorate of Mines, has prepared a report confirming the contamination of the school grounds as a result of the surface water drainage that drains inside the center courtyard, and they conclude that they are urgent The actions for the environmental recovery of the area, an epidemiological study of schoolchildren, and the removal of metallic waste, both in the center and on nearby land.
On the other hand, the regional deputy of the orange formation said that "in the medium term, from Citizens we want to study different formulas and possibilities that exist to unify the students of the three populations in the area, now divided into two educational centers, To count the number of places and to explore the possibility that the schoolchildren of El Llano, El Strait of San Ginés and El Llano del Beal could be in an area free of runoff "
Meanwhile, the local spokesperson for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, said that "the local representatives in this council are making a titanic effort to bring their claims to all public institutions, and all political formations, are fighting for The survival of these populations who feel abandoned after years of mining. "
"Almost all the political groups have already received a basic document drafted by them, in which they collect the problems that have been accumulating in the area and that have led this Deputation to a serious deterioration in the social, economic, Environmental and health, and all groups, including the one that is in the regional executive, we have agreed to point out that an ambitious strategic plan is necessary to reverse this situation.
"With this political consensus and the studies that certify the risk for health, we understand that there will be no problems to start working and to offer solutions," said Manuel Padín.
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena