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The mayor urges administrations to act now on Portman (06/05/2016)

Alderman considered "disturbing" the data coming reviewing several scientific papers that highlight the risk to the health of sterile deposited in Portman Bay and the Sierra Minera from extractive mining.

Lopez will contact the authors of such studies, to know in depth and seek their cooperation in order to use them to the European authorities and urge immediate action on the area.

Pedro Lopez noted that recent studies published about it, "underscore the urgent need to undertake once portodas, and urgently, the regeneration of Portman Bay and the Sierra Minera, because this is not an environmental problem only, or recovery of a degraded space that needs a performance from the landscape point of view, but we are facing a public health problem that affects the whole region, and to be given the importance it deserves as such. "

The mayor has stated that "the fact that the sterile take decades over the bay and the mining activity ceased does not mean that the problem does not exist, but quite the opposite.

What highlights the urgency to undertake action once and for all, as our population and the whole region has been too many years exposed to the dangers of the toxicity of mining waste ".

He ended up unionense alderman stating that: "Let's see if once and for all, the competent authorities mentalizan and sensitized to this problem and realize that it is urgent to undertake this action even for reasons of public health, why which we will initiate contacts with the speakers of these studies to know them in depth, and if possible, try to use this knowledge to attend the European authorities to end this situation and force acting regeneration Bay Portmán and recovery of the Sierra Minera.

Remember that Mari Luz García, researcher at the Department of Petrology and Geochemistry of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and professor of The Faculty of Geology, recently presented a study conducted with scientists from the Universities of Murcia and Barcelona, ​​which warned of which the Sierra Minera de Cartagena-La Union, inoperative since 1990, has "elevated" levels of toxicity, fruit of content potentially toxic elements in their waste, indicating that concentrations of arsenic, cadmium and lead in samples of soil and water "they are harmful to human health."

Also, in the days 'Contaminated Soils: I biolaw and health' organized by the research group Cebes University of Murcia (Center for Studies in Biolaw, Ethics and Health), held last April in the Hall of Degrees the Faculty of law of the University of Murcia, professor of Agricultural Chemistry, Geology and soil Science of the University of Murcia Maria Jose Martinez and researcher at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena José Matías Peñas Castejon presented two of the most emblematic cases regarding contaminated soils: the Portman bay and Jenny mining raft.

Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión

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