| continues the fight against the river of tar sa Riera | | | |
| mallorcadiario.com | |
| Wednesday, April 16, 2008 | |
| PALMA .- The brigades Balearic Institute Nature (IBANAT) have almost two months removing tar of sa Riera torrent passing through the Mallorcan town of Puigpunyent, without so far have been complete the cleaning operation landfill, which still need another two months cleanup task, being an area protected by the 'Natura' European Union . Ins ven Europa Press reported the general director of Water Resources, Govern, Isidre Cañellas , dumping that caused pollution of the river bed leading to the Port of Palma comes Hotel Son Net, whose oil tank heating drilled when the establishment was closed and caused the leak through the sewers, detected on 26 January. a result of this accident, was discharged 6,000 liters of this hydrocarbon that ended in the Sewage Treatment Station (STP) of Puigpunyent, which contained his breakthrough making travel 4,000 liters to an empty warehouse, but not could prevent 2,000 liters remaining passed into the water treatment process and, hence, to the stream. Cañellas explained that, immediately was launched cleaning process sewage and, above all, the stream bed, which was commissioned IBANAT, which keeps a brigade six workers working in shifts of seven hours in the collection "hand" of tar , which have already withdrawn 15 tons consist of contaminated soil and vegetation. have also been laid at this time a total of 500 meters filter bands, which let water through but block the passage hydrocarbon , and at the same time, you're dealing with products "safe "municipal sewage network and periodic reviews are conducted flow and the stream bed and wells located downstream, which were not affected, said Cañellas. PROTECTED SPECIES not been adversely affected the protected plant species found in the area and workers IBANAT, assured the Director General of Water Resources has indicated that the landfill is currently "very controlled" and the area "almost decontaminated," which has meant spending until now about 75,000 euros . Note that the 'Natura' EU is currently the highest level of environmental protection in Europe, which implies that this type of discharges of pollutants should be removed according to some standards established they are very restrictive, and prevent the use of light or heavy machinery, so that the cleaning process is practically manual. |
