The Secretary General and Spokesman of the Parliamentary Group of Podemos, has verified on site how the facilities of the dump of Valentín (district of Cehegín) are almost completed and "do not correspond to the infrastructure of a plant for the treatment of inert waste, but to a landfill of urban waste with the risks that it entails for neighboring populations and for the environment, since it is located in a ZEPA zone "
Oscar Urralburu has held different work meetings in the municipality of Cehegin, where he has had a meeting with the mayor of the town, José Rafael Rocamora and the councilor of Cehegin for Change, Cristóbal Pintor, where he has pledged to promote the regional budgets improvement measures in the county road of Cañada García and the arrangement of the sports center track in the IES Vega Argos Murcia Road, the section that runs through the municipality of Cehegín, integral arrangement, sanitation, pavements, asphalted, as well as the Salt Water highway RM-B21, which are being historical claims of the municipality.
Later and accompanied by the Councilman, Cristóbal Pintor and neighbors affected by the construction of the landfill of the districts of Valentín and Canara, has been able to check the status of this infrastructure which has been made in a ZEPA area, near a swamp and adjoining agricultural holdings
Urralburu has explained that what was initially conceived as a landfill for inert waste "has been converted over the years into something very different since you can see at a glance the construction of a large raft that could be deposit the leachates "
Urralburu has remarked that an installation like this, where urban waste will be treated "does not meet the requirements to be in a Zepa area, and a few meters from a reservoir, besides its surroundings are next to a ravine, so if leaks would occur, these would end up in the surrounding agricultural land, and end up damaging them "
In this sense, he affirmed that from Podemos we understand "the Ministry of Agriculture is making it very easy for the owner company to start up, since it has not been hindered when the initial project of an inert waste landfill has been transformed into a lot more"
Thus, he assured that "We can ensure both with the parliamentary initiatives that can be carried out and with the joint work with the team in Cehegin to ensure compliance with the Law"
Source: Podemos Región de Murcia