Portal de La Union
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Union, 07 September 2010.
The general director of Sustainability and the Sea Coast, Pedro Antonio Ríos, has today expressed its desire "to prove with facts that can walk the line of a commitment to recovery Portman Bay and the Sierra Minera La Union with future prospects in the short and medium term. "
Rios was speaking in the context of the visit he made to the hamlet unionense Portman, which has submitted the second phase of the pilot project for the recovery of contaminated soils in the Bay, a move that offered by the University made Murcia and in which the Ministry of Environment and Rural and Marine will invest over 3.5 billion euros.
As he explained, "The extension of this pilot project is to find the desired continuity in the report of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and waste management to be undertaken by the Directorate General for Environmental Quality Assessment and technical-with which we meet tomorrow , at 1700 hours and in the call, the next in January, the monitoring committee. "
Rios, who was accompanied by the Chief of the Coastal Authority Region Paca Baraza, and members of the Municipal Corporation unionense, stated that "the autonomous region and I know that the EIA is conducting its activities in the project -the construction of the port area, "and the aim is that all this investment is reflected in the budgets of 2012."
However, warned that "the economic situation is different today than three years ago, and perhaps the implementation of the project-not in the execution time of the works to be carried out once, but have to pay- done in more than two or three installments, we are managing funding and technical study. "
The project to regenerate the bay is, firstly, in the removal of ore to recover 250 meters of coastline and its transfer to the San José mining short, action is for the central Government, the construction after a supplementary to the fishing marina, which would be responsible for the CCAA, and the purpose of continuity blanketing the town, including the development of beach areas, gardens or areas of facilities, which fall within the competence to perform at City Hall.
In this sense, Rivers has said that the initiative of an experience that does not exist in Spain, as is the commitment of central government, the autonomous region, municipality and the scientific community with neighborhood organizations and protest ", an occasion that has taken to say that he will also seek participation Portman Golf Company SA, last owner of the mining in the area.
SECOND PHASE OF THE PROJECT
The overall objective of the pilot project for the recovery of contaminated soils Portman Bay, which holds a dozen technical UMU is making the necessary investigations for the characterization of contaminated sediments that cover the bay and to determine Suitable methods for carrying out the decontamination process them.
According to M ª José Martínez, a professor in the Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Geology and the first phase of the project, which took more than 5.3 million euros, possible to stabilize the soil in an area of 118,500 meters square, two plots experimental construction of a laboratory vessel of 525 square meters and the construction of the promenade with bay 300 meters in length.
For its part, the second phase with a budget of 3,509,748 euros and involves three steps to be undertaken in the next 12 months such as extending the treatment of mechanical stabilization of soils in an area of 11,000 square meters, and the extension the 100-meter walk to link to the village of Portman.
Also have an experimental plot of 7,200 square meters in the South Bay area for treatment in situ immobilization of heavy metals by physiochemical pathway, reducing the mobility of contaminants.
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión
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