New audience will be held to evaluate whether the municipalities have fulfilled the commitments to keep in operation ‘El Carrasco’.
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The crisis of Final waste disposal in Bucaramanga again in the center of the public debate, before the audience scheduled for the next October 2in which it will be reviewed if the municipal administrations are complying with the determinations of previous failures on the El Carrasco Sanitary Filllocated in jurisdiction of Girón.
At the hearing, Judge 15 Administrative of Santander will review if Bucaramanga, Floridablanca, Girón and Piedecuesta They have fulfilled the conditions of the failure that orders to expand the landfill capacity, optimize the leachate plant and reduce the garbage that enters by 15 %. However, the cleaning company of Bucaramanga (EMAB) warns that this commitment has not been fulfilled, since the filling enters daily near 1,000 tons of solid wastewhich per month is equivalent to 13,400 tons of Bucaramanga, 5,500 of Floridablanca, 3,200 Girón and 3,100 of Piedecuesta.
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The director of the Bucaramanga cleaning company (EMAB), Herlbert Panquevasaid that from the entity actions are being advanced to guarantee the continuity of the cleaning service and comply with the judicial provisions:
“Well, basically to give tranquility to all the inhabitants of the Bucaramanga metropolitan area that use our landfill the Carrasco, This simply obeys some obligations in the fulfillment of the ruling that ordered its closure. In this sense, we have been working together with the mayors of the metropolitan area and we already have the resources available to guarantee the extension of the landfill, the entry into operation of the leachate treatment plant and a whole strategy that will be designed in the metropolitan area precisely to reduce the amount of garbage that currently reaches the filling and thus be able to comply with the failure ”.
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Panqueva added that The most important thing is that citizens know that the process will not stop: “Although these dates have, we will soon work with the judge to establish that work schedule, those short, medium and long term obligations, which will guarantee not only complying with the ruling, but that process of transformation that we need a conventional sanitary landfill to a technological park, passing from linear economy to circular economy and finally complying with this ruling that already now turns 14 years old.”
Bucaramanga would face a critical panorama: if a Alternate site or a Comprehensive Base Management Planthe city could repeat Health emergencies as those registered in previous years, when the TEMPORARY FILLING CLOSURE He left tons of accumulated waste in the streets.
Source: Integrated information system
