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According to IU, the Murcia Provincial Court has accepted in full the indictment submitted by the political group in the judicial process for discharges to the River Segura, "which are charged Sewer Mayor Lazaro Mellado, and managers the Hydrographic Confederation of Segura (CHS), among others. "
This was announced today that IU + mayor of Los Verdes de Murcia, Esther Herguedas, who recalled that "between 1985 and 2000 were discharged pollutants by various agencies, which highlighted the municipal water company (EMUASA), the CHS Sewer and the City, although there is an obligation to debug. "
In this regard, said that "the United Left in 1999 reported the incident to justice" and that since then, "the judicial process has suffered many hindrances and snares that make this case being investigated further even though they have been nine years. "
According to the mayor of IU + Greens, the judicial decision of the Court of Murcia, notified on 25 September, "recognizes that the request was based UI documentary" and represents "a new milestone in the development of this conflict."
He noted that the judiciary has also admitted the petition filed by UTI liability for carrying out a preliminary check by environmental specialists, should be demonstrated, lead to the development of an environmental restoration plan of the river basin contrapasa safe from its mouth.
He stressed the importance of this ruling because it involves "a step toward full recovery from the environmental point of view of the river Segura, which is fully technically and economically feasible."
BACKGROUND (Article submitted by IU):
The entry into force in 1985 of the Water Act and its subsequent regulatory developments marked the establishment of the ban on polluting discharges to public water and the obligation imposed on all municipalities, of treating waste water, urban and industrial.
In the present case - made discharges into the river Segura, these rules were violated systematically recorded discharges from that date until February 2000 without any kind of cleansing that occurred as revealed by the analysis made in the points discharge, high levels of harmful pollutants for both the ecosystem and for human health.
Several agencies are responsible for these facts:
First, the municipal company EMUASA, who under the powers in the purification of Murcia local corporation, and that is the cause of numerous discharges of urban domestic sewage and industrial municipality of Murcia.
Segura Hydrographic Confederation, the competent organ in maintenance of water police, whose tolerant attitude regarding wastewater discharges default of its duty to control and acting special duties imposed by the water legislation has contributed decisively to threaten not only the public water, but also public health, to be a serious problem of chemical pollution of the waters.
Sewer The City Council is also responsible for numerous releases on which, as EMUASA, declined to provide the required technical documents and to take corrective measures required by law
And technical managers on site during construction of the macro purification Murcia Este WWTP in the corner spot or corner Gallego San Antón and the period until final acceptance and therefore responsible for monitoring the discharges through the same and that these rules are adapted to communicate to the agency any incident related to watershed discharges.
Given the unsustainability of the situation, in June 1999, the United Left initiates procedures aimed to report the facts by attributing these crimes courts to persons occupying positions of responsibility of these entities.
While until 2002 the training process is a development that could be described as normal, as of this date the file was sealed in the court of instruction despite the fact that on 26-XI-03 the judge had issued car for trial by stating to the Court jurisdiction to hear these facts in consideration of certain aggravating factors in sentencing.
From this date there is a slowing down of the process entirely unjustified whose last significant act takes place in November 2005 when the judge, before leaving his post at the court and a decision to at least be described as unusual, again to rule on the aggravating circumstances of the crime charged that it had considered sending the case to criminal court (instead of the audience) with a reduction of penalty.
Since then, the process has been pending resolution of various resources including an appeal to the Court requesting the annulment of the last performance of the investigating judge for speaking out against something that was already decided.
Is the subject of today has come to them.
The order of the Court
Indeed, by Order of September 8, 2008, the Court gives the right to appeal apeleción presented by IU admitting our indictment in its entirety and reversing the decision of the then trainer of Court No. 4 that was rejected in part our letter of allegations in a resolution that did not explain exactly what facts were admitted and what was, in a situation that made us helpless and legal uncertainty.
The Court ordered that the indictment supports us completely and therefore recognizes that this part had not exceeded his request and that everything contained in that letter was supporting documentation.
But this is not the only resolution of the Order of the Court, and it also gives us a reason to look very important that we consider our request admitting liability and therefore also supports test performance early in the day to ask .
Indeed, the document that we presented at the time we proposed that civil liability should comprise two successive steps
1 .- The preparation by a team of independent experts and experienced
of Environmental Restoration Plan of the Segura River Basin from the Contraparada to its mouth, incubated necesria all previous reports, with proposals for action and economic evaluation.
2 .- To defray the implementation of the Environmental Restoration Plan with concrete actions that it collects.
And for this we requested that a preliminary check was practiced by two concrete specialists, one from the University of Barcelona, the other from the University of Murcia, to specify how particular danger to the balance of the ecosystem and the health of people derived from such discharges.
Source: IU+LV del Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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