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The Association last summer went to the Segura River Basin Authority to request the analysis of water samples from two separate mining pits located in the vicinity of municipal landfill waste from urban sources located in the hamlet of El Gorguel (Cartagena), before fear that was causing the leakage of contaminated water into the ground.
The water analysis conducted by the CHS are still provisional, and require additional information from the environmental agency of the Autonomous Community (the General Directorate of Environmental Quality of the Ministry of Agriculture and Water), relating to information on measures control of pollution of groundwater under the Royal Decree 1481/2001, of 27 December, which regulates waste disposal by landfill.
ASEAN has made since 1992 various complaints by the poor management of wastes from Cartagena and its surroundings, as did the SEPRONA (Department of Nature Protection of the Civil Guard) which led to disciplinary proceedings launched by the Directorate General of Quality Environmental Autonomous Community to the company that manages the landfill and waste facility, Lhicarsa (formed by FCC and to a lesser extent, the city of Cartagena).
The ultimate sanction was just over € 18,000, having been contested by the company through administrative appeal.
The figures are eloquent Landfill crazy so-called "Regent Mine dump."
Although the Environmental Impact Statement, authorizing the discharge of 875,000 m3 of rejections (fraction of household waste that can not be exploited, after separating glass, paper, packaging, organic matter and other materials), the same company Lhicarsa recognized in processing Environmental Impact Assessment of the new landfill in the backlog at the end of 2006, just four years after its launch, was 900,000 m3.
By September 2007 it was estimated that waste already reach 1.2 million m3, having continued the same until today.
Given this situation, it is easy to understand that the hundreds of thousands of tonnes of organic waste improperly dumped both of the old landfill and the Mine Gorguel Regent, mixed with plenty of contaminated waste from households and industrial sites are generating as a result of decompose large amounts of wastewater (leachate), far exceeding the most pessimistic, and that might be contaminating the groundwater.
To make matters worse, several years after its completion of sealing of the old landfill Gorguel, which were financed, as the new plant and garbage dump Regent Mina with EU funds, has not been carried revegetation out, despite being on the edge of the protected area (SPA and SCI) Sierra de La Fausilla.
Source: ANSE
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