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ARCHIVED - Work to eliminate environmentally hazardous eyesore in the Murcia countryside nears completion
Proambiente allowed 13,800 tons of leachates to contaminate the land between Abanilla and Orihuela
It is now over eight years since the regional government of Murcia detected unauthorized dumping in the area of La Solana, close to Abanilla and the boundary between the Region of Murcia and the province of Alicante, and as investigations continued it emerged that a dump run by the company Proambiente had been failing to treat and dispose of waste correctly and had caused considerable environmental damage due to the leakage of 13,800 tons of leachates into the soil.
Following this Proambiente was ordered to take steps to compensate for the environmental damage which had been caused, and in April 2013 the company made a 3.3-million-euro deposit to guarantee a restoration plan. However, in 2018 the Murcia government has imposed a 1.47-million-euro fine on the company for its “repeated and serious” failure to comply with its obligations.
Since then, work on removing the leachates and sealing the tip has continued and it is now expected that the project will be completed in late May this year when the task of sealing the pool known as “Vaso 0” at the Proambiente site is completed. This project began in November with a budget of just over a million euros and is now 35 per cent complete, with everything on schedule for the targeted completion date in May to be achieved, and according to the regional government.
Vaso 0 occupies a surface area of 23,300 square metres and the plan is to cover it with clay to a depth of 40 centimetres and then a further 70 centimetres of soil, topped off by 30 centimetres of compost into which seeds of native plant species will be planted. At the sites of the other pools, which have already been sealed off, work will be carried out where necessary to deal with minor landslides and subsidence in certain areas, many of which suffered damage during the disastrous “gota fría” storm of September 2019 and other episodes of heavy rain last year.
When this phase of work is completed the process of stabilizing and sealing the pits will finally be completed, after overcoming the numerous difficulties encountered during the intervening years.