Huelva, (EFE) the amount of storage allowed.
As confirmed to EFE by sources from the Ministry and El País has advanced, the measure has been adopted after, in the framework of processing the modification of the Integrated Environmental Authorization (AAI) requested by the company, the Department of Waste Soil Quality, the Ministry commissioned a report from the company on the state of the facilities and, given “insufficient” information, decided to carry out its own analysis, which it commissioned from a specialized company.
This last report concluded that “the total sum of the waste contained in vessels I, II and III was 10,253,665 tons, 2,869,554 more than the 7,384,111 established in the integrated environmental authorization”, which contemplates the total sum of the vessels and the final screed, that is, “an excess of 39 percent with respect to the planned capacity”.
Alleged falsification of data
The regional Administration considers that these differences between what is allowed and what is stored “cannot be attributed to the method used by the operator to determine the mass that is deposited because the entity professionally dedicated to waste management is assumed to have capacity and technical knowledge enough to take that control.”
For this reason, the Ministry considers in the file for the Nerva landfill that the company “allegedly falsified the data required by the applicable regulations” with the “will to confuse or deceive about the mass deposited and about the state of the installation in relation to what is authorized”, hence the open file proposes, in addition to the closure of the vessels, the payment of a fine by Diseño de Soluciones Medioambientales (DSM) of 1,686,824 euros.
For many years, different social groups and even the City Council have been denouncing the clogging of these waste vessels, both non-hazardous and dangerous, a fact that has led them to repeatedly request the closure of these facilities, located a short distance from the population center of Nerva. EFE