Councilman IU-V in the city of Lorca, Pedro Sosa, has raised this morning at the Board of Directors of Aguas de Lorca that attention be paid to the numerous lines of the water supply network of Lorca that still use tubes fiber cement.
In this type of pipeline asbestos, a highly polluting substance and generating very serious disease it is present, and whose use is banned in Spain since 2002.
With this initiative the mayor of IU-V moves to "Aguas de Lorca" a demand for neighborhood associations of the districts high Lorca, concerned about the increasing cases of serious illnesses that are occurring in these districts in recent years.
Sosa, making speaker neighbors, intended to Aguas de Lorca hire conducting external analysis of water in the districts designed to detect the presence of this contaminant, and also the plan that currently is undertaken in the city of Lorca comprehensive renovation of the pipes of drinking water extended to all districts of the municipality.
On the other hand, Councilman IU-V has stated that require municipal precise about the treatment being given to asbestos waste arriving at the municipal landfill government information, and whether or not that treatment is being managed subject to the rules existing state and community.
A government decree of Spain 2006 and a subsequent Directive of the European Union.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca