Dear President Vendola,
The writing to bring to your attention the plight that we, father and citizen of the province of Taranto, and in particular Lizzano, we are forced to live because of choices "wicked", made in the past by public officials and unscrupulous businessmen and the issues which we pay the consequences.
Among the common Lizzano, Faggiano, Roccaforzata, Fragagnano, there is Monteparano Island Administrative called Taranto B” distante 18 km dalla città Jonica. Per l'enorme presenza di cave di estrazione di tufi la zona è sembrata , a chi gestiva le cave, luogo idoneo al conferimento di rifiuti e occasione perfetta per lucrosi guadagni. Per quasi 40 anni una vasta zona è stata utilizzata come discarica incontrollata da parte di tutta la Provincia (ma anche da altre province, soprattutto del settentrione) senza che ci siano mai stati controlli né quindi, nessuna bonifica; questa stessa zona adesso è utilizzata per coltivazioni agricole.
Come Lei ben sa, prima non vi era nessuna normativa, mentre , dal 1982, tutte le discariche devono subject to Presidential Decree 915/82 requires that the waterproofing system to prevent the contaminated groundwater and soil. The presence of uncontrolled landfills, prior to the adoption of legislative decree, there is reason to suspect possible contamination of groundwater and soil. As is known, since 1982 precisely those uncontrolled landfills have become landfills authorized to dispose of MSW (municipal solid waste).
In 2003, however, began with a unique authorization process and controversial, the sad story of former landfill site for hazardous waste 2B "Mennole" Virgin of the company, located just 2 km from the town of Lizzano, with a volume of 1,080,000 m³. Procedure than, we believe that the Provincial and Regional Administrations have done nothing to sort out the doubts and give convincing answers to us citizens. Suffice it to say that the landfill Palagianello of San Felice, who had problems similar to that of the Virgin spa company, we proceeded to the cancellation of permits.
since 2008 came in the second year for special waste landfill Virgin "Palombara", a site with a volume of 2,288,000 m³, very near the village (1500 meters). P er its launch, the citizens were not consulted and was made go for "an extension" of the fact that you can consider opening a new landfill site of enormous size, nearly 3 times higher than the previous one. The release of the EIA, was not taken into account the cumulative effect of 40 years of landfill, despite a shortage was already evident in the layers of waterproofing, now exposed by a team of engineers, technical report (according to which a lack meter was proofing).
In the same year the Apulia Region authorized 3,612 .298 m³ and the 2.612.146m ³ ³ 2.200.000m Italcave of Statte and the Ecolevante Grottaglie (famous third lot, a few miles from the municipalities also covered by Virgin), the largest in Europe. The sole province of Taranto can be disposed of in total 10.708.444m ³ of waste.
Why this huge amount?
E 'as it leaves us puzzled. Only in the province of Taranto is disposed a quantity of hazardous waste from all over Italy, 14 times greater than the whole of Lombardy amounted to 750.000m ³ despite not having an industrial base that would justify all of these landfills . This figure is even more disconcerting if you think that Ilva has its own landfill.
As you can imagine, disposal of hazardous waste is an activity that creates problems in the area where it is made. The landfill Virgin makes us live a life very uncomfortable: every night and morning, forcing us to breathe an air of "smelly", acrid and nauseating, releasing poison gas to our health. These fumes do not allow us to sleep, to breathe. A Lizzano we are forced to wear masks, to close the windows to plug the leaks for the gas to prevent the entry of fumes (risk), to "bagging" the flues of fireplaces and left unused, to open the windows of the school every morning because the poison pools in the classrooms remained closed during the night, to accompany their children to school by covering their noses and mouths with scarves protect at least the stench, unfortunately not from the damage caused by them. .
We to Lizzano, we are forced to breathe poison. There is no alternative, you can not go out and get rid of, you can not choose. NO! There's just gas. If there north wind, we already know in the afternoon that evening we watery eyes, the nausea will begin to make us suffer around 19.00, we can not leave us in a walk, that our children with asthma will have serious difficulty breathing calling for help. Unfortunately it is a help that we can not give them and this makes us feel bad, useless, powerless.
Our freedom is severely limited. President She feels all this normal?
Following hundreds of calls reporting the issue, made by us mothers and fathers, the fire department and the Provincial Police, the apparatus finally control and protection is activated. On 11 January this year the checks were carried out and found what we long continue to say: non-compliance of Law 36/03, AIA and conditions posed by it.
The landfill Virgin seems to have built a biogas plant uptake only now, following the complaints of citizens, and, still, it seems that not using it and has never (or hardly ever ) carried out the daily covering of waste. Moreover, it appears that the company has never conducted series analysis of air, water and earth, just think that the data collected in the self-analysis conducted in the plant showed values \u200b\u200bwell below those experienced by ARPA outside the landfill. This seems paradoxical, and we have also highlighted the ARPA Taranto.
also monitoring ARPA protocol covers only the odor problem, fact, the ARPA monitors air quality Lizzano through only three organic molecules: Hydrogen Sulfide , Ammonia, Limonene. This there seems to be comprehensive in order to protect our health. We believe that you should also take account of odor molecules, but also toxic and dangerous.
However, already these surveys do not leave us in peace. L ' hydrogen sulfide or hydrogen sulphide H ₂ S is a colorless gas that gives off a distinctive odor of eggs gears. Turns out to be one of the leaders of the unbearable stench that surrounds us. We have learned that a substance is classified as highly poisonous (toxic broad-spectrum) and is an irritant gas that affects many organs in the human body. The data detected by monitoring differential ARPA Lizzano readings that correspond to the effects documented in the scientific literature 1 : sore eyes and nose, cough, headache, odors, neuropsychological defects, delays in verbal, motor problems of coordination with closed eyes, the color recognition.
For Hydrogen Sulfide there is no legislation that places a mandatory emissions limit, he knows only one olfactory threshold to which it refers , but there is no threshold to be met .
The landfill Virgin allegedly not complying with the rules, otherwise it would explain the huge emissions.
However, we also his involvement in three trials for illegal trafficking of waste ( El Dorado 2003 , Spider Web June 2010 and Spiderman February 2010).
Public Health
A more worrying, however, is the health status of our country. A Lizzano there is high percentage of patients with thyroid (gland spongy particularly sensitive to what you breathe), the data is all too strange if you think that Lizzie is situated about 4 km from the sea and from 15 years is a popular destination for holidays therapeutic "children of Belarus (in need of iodine in the aftermath of Chernobyl ), so theoretically should have been protected from the effects on the thyroid , and but no!
A proof of this fact, the sale of drugs to treat thyroid (Eutirox and the like) is appalling, another anomaly is the acute and chronic diseases of asthma and respiratory tract that primarily affects children ; here also reflected the sale of drugs (Seretide, Aliflus and the like) is alarming.
A Lizzano is very difficult to die a natural death, there is always a fulminant disease that leads to death. Mortality from cancer is much increased in recent years, cases de novo increase by decreasing the average age of cancer patients. More and more young people under the age of 40 are suffering from a terminal disease! From this we can not give you figures because we do not have geo-discriminatory health surveys.
Nevertheless, the health situation does not seem to affect any body, although this could not proceed to the creation of epidemiological maps that we are calling for for years.
should do some serious checking by drilling on all existing landfills in that vast area, both closed and never reclaimed and those in cultivation, to investigate (retrospectively) the goodness of waste delivered, the actual conduct of daily coverage, check the status of the waterproofing at the bottom of the landfill to prevent any possibility of seepage into groundwater, detailed analysis on water ( we do not know anything about water quality), land (being strong in our area agricultural vocation) on air monitoring should be carried out differential can be inferred where the peak concentrations of hydrogen sulfide: the current monitoring referred to is a passive sampling on a monthly average from which the same was confirmed by ARPA Puglia, you can not show any peak of poisonous fumes.
The suspension of January 20, 2011
Apulia Region as a result of checks carried out the January 11, 2011 provided for the suspension of the authorization to the landfill as a precaution Virgin then promptly withdrawn from the TAR Lecce . What will the region? That the way he wants to follow to ensure a minimum living?
Reopen the AIA
The AIA should be respected. AIA is not enough to issue binding regulations, then you must make sure that the conditions imposed (to protect public health and the environment) are met: this is not done.
Virgin The landfill is not passive adequate controls so people are not adequately protected so that we are forced to live in a gas chamber from which escape is impossible.
The cores are investigating retroactive to investigate how to effectively comply with the requirements by Region Puglia asked by the AIA.
not only the law should be respected and respect tares, but also the public should have the right to be heard in order to choose how to live on its territory, on their own land.
Finally, we invite a guest in our homes to experience what we say in this letter, maybe one evening in the north.
the hope that future institutional choices can, together with your Board, consider that today we have tried to illustrate, we wish you good work.
Sincerely,
Lizzano The father of the voluntary association AttivaLizzano
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