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Since the opening of slurry plants in 2003, the two municipal governments (PSOE and PP) of Lorca, have shown no political will or courage to address this serious problem of public health and quality of life in Lorca.
Should be the only ones that do not smell Lorca.
The thresholds for human health protection from contamination by particles in suspension have been far exceeded in 18 of the 27 days we've July.
The most critical moment was experienced last Saturday (July 26) at 3 pm, where the air quality station in Lorca yielded a figure of suspended particulate pollutants multiplied by more than 6 times the threshold of protection human health.
Councilman UI Lorca, Pedro Sosa, condemned this morning's incredible passivity of municipal government before the tremendous wave of bad smell during the day yesterday and this morning have flooded the atmosphere of Lorca.
Moreover IU said that since the inauguration of cogeneration power plants through manure, opened in 2003 until today have been numerous occasions in which the group has urged local authorities to tackle this serious problem.
These initiatives include also include a formal complaint to the SEPRONA, and the finding by the Civil Guard officers that the unmistakable smell that permeates Lorca coincides with that in the manure treatment plants.
The latest initiative was to start UI engagement of current government for the CEBAS (CSIC institution linked to) conduct a study on this subject, we hope to conclude soon.
For IU the situation that exists in Lorca is not tolerable.
Neither Lorca, and these days our guests deserve to breathe air so polluted that in addition to obvious cause public health problems, give a deplorable of Lorca and their makers.
To the pests that we have had to endure today, imagine that policy makers in all that has been entrusted to the wind changed and carry these pollutants to another site, but are unable to control their source and stop the activity that generated.
Sosa says that in the 27 days of July we figures threshold for human health by particulate matter Lorca pollutants are alarming.
Of those 27 days have been nothing less than the 18 days in which we have exceeded that threshold.
The most critical day was Saturday 26, at 3 pm, Lorca recorded a particle concentration of pollutants as much as 305.3 micrograms per cubic meter, exceeding by more than six times the limit values for the protection of human health are assessed by the European directives in 50 micrograms.
On this day, pollution episodes are also alarming, as from 8 am to 11 noon, we have been exceeding that threshold, peaking at 10 in the morning that has risen to 160.8 micrograms, more than three times above the permitted threshold.
Source: IU-LV
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