NewsWhore
03-24-2010, 04:40 PM
The liquids resulting from the decomposition of garbage are not being treated at the Duquesa dump. The administrators claim payment received from the different municipalities that use the site is not enough to pay for treating the toxic liquids.
Small streams of highly polluted percolate flows down from the higher areas of Duquesa. Specialist in environmental science, engineer Roberto Castillo Tio says that a liter of this liquid is equal to the contamination that 100,000 persons together can produce, and has the capacity to contaminate 100 m3 of water (about 25,400 gallons).
The risk is worse if one takes into consideration the study by the Ministry of the Environment that says that all of the nation's garbage dumps, including Duquesa, "rest upon geological, hydrological and productive soils not compatible with their locations".
The study, carried out in 2007 in coordination with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), says that generally speaking the treatment of the refuse at the dumps is inexistent.
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Small streams of highly polluted percolate flows down from the higher areas of Duquesa. Specialist in environmental science, engineer Roberto Castillo Tio says that a liter of this liquid is equal to the contamination that 100,000 persons together can produce, and has the capacity to contaminate 100 m3 of water (about 25,400 gallons).
The risk is worse if one takes into consideration the study by the Ministry of the Environment that says that all of the nation's garbage dumps, including Duquesa, "rest upon geological, hydrological and productive soils not compatible with their locations".
The study, carried out in 2007 in coordination with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), says that generally speaking the treatment of the refuse at the dumps is inexistent.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)