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SANT'ARCANGELO Trimonte. STORY OF A LANDFILL


What I'm about to tell you the story of a town in the province of Benevento, which for days is paid rivers of ink to the local news. His name is Sant'Arcangelo Trimonte . This is a small country of 9.8 square km, located 363 meters above sea level and sparsely populated (691 souls of which 80% are over sixty). So if these numbers are what drew the attention of journalists and photographers from 20 to 22 October were discharged between the green hills of Sannio? In fact to give the numbers we have not yet finished. Missing three. Three are many sites which have about ten years engaged the local population, located 500 meters from the storage sites in ongoing struggles.

and May 2002 in Naples explodes when the emergency waste. The then Special Commissioner, the President of Regione Campania, Antonio Bassolino, in agreement with the President of the Province of Benevento and representatives of the City of Saint Archangel, made on behalf of the consortium Naples, a third of 700,000 cubic meters of landfill waste. The management of the landfill is entrusted to the district Nocecchia FIBE. The storage site, however, is in a state of complete decay, "the walls surrounding the landfill have many cracks where they exit from the leachate, which has now polluted the surrounding area," says geologist Vincent Briuolo. Moreover, the steep slope on which the landfill facilitate the flow downstream of this substance. Urge
a reclamation but does not arrive. They come to two other landfills.

In 2008 waste disposal in Campania again raises serious concerns. It is a new emergency and landfill Sant'Arcangelo Trimonte is already saturated. What to do? The solution is taken May 21: the new Berlusconi government approved the Dl 90/08 (converted into Law No. 123 of July 14, 2008) with which they identify ten new "sites for a landfill." Sant'Arcangelo Trimonte figure in the list.
"The landfill must be highly industrial action must be realized that the best way since they can lead to pollution and runoff," explained the geologist Giovanbattista De Medici, who spoke April 5, 2008, meeting organized by Sant'Arcangelo Assise di Palazzo Marigliano of Naples, on the proposal of Codisam, the Committee of Health and Environment was born eight months after the publication of Decree-Law.
the avoidance of doubt the law No. 123, Article 2 provides for the establishment of sites for a landfill in compliance with the measures necessary to protect health and the environment. Apparently the landfill Sant'Arcangelo Trimonte exception.
Experts have consistently revealed the serious hydro-geological instability of the area that falls within the so-called "axial zone of the chain, the seismically active area of \u200b\u200bSouthern Italy where generate earthquakes of higher intensity. But not all. The design of the new landfill district Nocecchia violates any European legislation on the environment: The area is dominated by a power of 150 KV. Did not reach even the clay, whose presence is essential for the selection of sites for a landfill, as a natural insulator that protects from possible infiltration of leachate into the surrounding soil. One last item logged by geologists is the daily presence of strong winds considered a kind of fixative of the smell. An environmental and social problems, whose cause is not attributable solely to the wind but especially to the poor management of the landfill.
Regardless, contemptuous the Super-Gianni De Gennaro goes ahead and clears the territory of Saint Archangel Trimonte, geologically shabby, the construction of a mega landfill in two tanks of 450,000 m3cadauna. Devastating

the socio-economic effects: they increase in malignant tumors of the lung, bladder and liver, and leukemia. Not to mention the economic damage suffered by the locals. Characterized by a strong rural population has seen the value of industrial assets, houses and land polluted by the seepage of leachate, fall within a few months.

Now two years have elapsed from the creation of the district Nocecchia site. But 2010 promises evil coming from the new buildings the Campania Region are not comforting. A Sant'Arcangelo Trimonte you have a cargo vessel full of "rubbish".

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