Legambiente: IIn Campania there are 55 municipalities without purification (3,9% of the population).
The volunteers of Legambiente Campania, on the occasion of the Campania stage of Legambiente's Goletta Verde, met this morning at the mouth of the Agnena torrent in Mondragone (Caserta) to display the banner with the words "What a shame”. In fact, the Agnena torrent was the protagonist, against its will, last May, of a spill of sewage, due to the malfunctioning of the inter-municipal purifier of Vitulazio. A circumstance that is not new, having occurred in the past at least four other times, on which the Prosecutor's Office is investigating. On the affair, Legambiente Campania has also announced that with the support of the Centro di Azione Giuridica, it has sent the Prosecutor's Office a statement of interest that, once the trial has been initiated, will allow the association to constitute itself as a civil party.
With the numbers and stories of the report Sea Monster 2020, Legambiente has highlighted how Campania holds the record in the illegal sea ranking recording the highest number of crimes related to illegal building, pollution and illegal fishing. There were 4.697 reported in 2019, 19,9% of the national total, with an increase of 35% compared to 2018. In Campania, sea predators travel at an average of 13 crimes per day, one every two hours, as many as 10 violations per km of coast, with 4.305 people reported and arrested and 1.571 seizures
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Discover moreIn particular with regard to infringements related to polluted seas in particular Polluting wastewater and poor purification, Campania fears no rivals: 1937 violations were detected (+ 22% compared to last year) equal to 24,8% of the national total, with 2004 people reported and arrested while 1084 were seized. According to official Istat data, just over 44% of Italian municipalities have a purification plant that meets the standards imposed by the European Union. Even worse: in 342 municipalities, where approximately 1,4 million inhabitants live (2,4% of the population), the urban waste water purification service is totally absent: in Campania there are 55 municipalities without purification (3,9% of the population).
“With the blitz – denounces Mariateresa Imparato, president of Legambiente Campania – we want to keep the attention high on feyes of rivers and streams, drains and small canals that we often find on our beaches and that represent the main vehicles of bacterial contamination due to insufficient purification of urban wastewater or illegal discharges that, through waterways, reach the sea. In many cases, behind these spills there is a criminal hand and the role of sentinel by responsible citizens is important. Our complaint on the purification deficiencies – concludes Imparato of Legambiente – wants to try to overcome a chronic deficit, also to protect tourism and the excellence of the territories".
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