Amalfi Coast.“The nature of the work involves the implementation of interventions with a significant impact on the particular landscape area characterized by a notable naturalness. The design solutions do not seem to effectively address the insertion of a technological system in a valuable and vulnerable context.”
This is the summary of the response of the Ministry of Culture prompted by the parliamentary question of the Honourable Anna Bilotti regarding the construction of a comprehensive purification plant in Maiori, on the Amalfi Coast, which also involves the municipalities of Atrani, Minori, Ravello, Scala and Tramonti.
Furthermore, according to the inspection report, the work is not currently compliant with the urban planning tools provided for by the local legislation, and its possible implementation cannot ignore a variation to the Territorial Urban Planning Plan with Landscape value.
“The response from the Ministry of Culture confirms all the critical issues that we have been supporting for months regarding the purification plant on the Amalfi Coast. The environmental and landscape impact of the work cannot be subject to any kind of exemption, especially in light of the protection that UNESCO asks of the communities in exchange for the recognition of world heritage.
We must get into the mindset – continues the Salerno MP – that our world heritage sites must be subject to very rigorous supra-municipal protections precisely because these are conservation interests that go beyond the needs of individual local administrations”.
The initiative of the Honorable Bilotti echoes the activities of the local committee "Let's Protect the Amalfi Coast" which has long been fighting to oppose the project whose execution would also cause land consumption, air pollution, and high management costs.
“We continue to keep the attention high on the problem – concludes Bilotti – asking for the evaluation of a more sustainable alternative solution, starting from the hypothesis of a possible construction of an underwater pipeline to be connected to the large purifier of Salerno, as already happens for other municipalities of the coast, which would avoid all the critical issues encountered for the construction of the consortium plant”.
Article published on 26 August 2021 - 20:08
