130 points polluted, one every 57 km of coastline. Bad treatment, oil extraction, illegal, coastal land use, pollution from large ships and military activities in the dossier are crimes under the umbrella. There is still too much maladepurazione in Italy. 130 samples results are polluted by the presence of non-purified sewage – one every 57 km of coastline – the total of 263 microbiological analyzes from the mobile laboratory of Green Schooner in summer 2013. In practice, almost 50 percent of monitored points along the coastal areas of 7,412.6 kilometers from the boat touched environmentalist. And of these sampling results well beyond the limits of the law 104 – 80 percent – have had a judgment of heavily polluted, ie with concentration of bacteria of faecal origin at least twice a s much as possible . 90 percent of the polluted points were taken at the mouths of rivers, streams, canals, rivers, ditches, or in the vicinity of discharges of purifiers that are broken, you confirm the number one enemy of our sea. In this gloomy picture, than to deal with the critical projects on time and permanent, in the South are also risks losing well 1.7 billion of funds for works to upgrade the sewage system. A loss to which you can also add a salty and fine for the infringement procedure which led to condemnation for failure to comply with the European directive on waste water treatment and sewerage. Seas and the Italian coast ended up in the viewfinder of six killer: maladepurazione, oil extraction, illegal construction, land use coastal pollution from large ships and military activities. Assassins in action from north to south of the Peninsula, twenty crime scenes in the dossier shows that Legambiente “You crimes under the umbrella. The yel low of August. ” These are the numbers of the final edition 2013 Green Schooner, the historic campaign that Legambiente for two months has circumnavigated the boot, monitoring the state of health of the Italian sea, realized thanks to the contribution of Coou, Mandatory Consortium of Used Oils, and with the participation of Corepla, the factory, and Nau Solbian. Thirty-four stops along the coasts of Italy, to act on the many battles in defense of the marine ecosystem of the area that carries Legambiente since 1986, denouncing, informing, involving citizens with the hope to promote positive examples in the name of environmental sustainability. A budget presented this morning in Rome, the seat of Legambiente, in the presence of Stefano Ciafani , vice president of Legambiente Giorgio Zampetti , scientific director of Legambiente Serena Carpenters , Head of Green Schooner and Antonio Mastrostefano , director of the Communication Coou. From north to south of the Peninsula’s lab Green Schooner went looking at sea and at the mouths of rivers, canals, streams and drains, of Escherichia coli and intestinal enterococci, performing water analysis according to the regulations on bathing (Legislative Decree 116/2008 and Ministerial Decree of 30 March 2010). No region is found free from the attack of bad treatment: a lack of or inadequate treatment of sewage that, according to Legambiente elaboration of ISTAT data, is still about 25% of citizens, discharging directly or indirectly into the sea through rivers and canals used as actual drains. A critical issue that not only affects the coastal municipalities, but also those of the hinterland, caused not only by the chronic shortage of equipment, but also the contribution of the pollutant load of wastewater that are not adequately treated by the facilities in place, because they are obsolete or malfunctioning. Green Sc hooner, it is worth repeating, take a snapshot that is not a substitute for monitoring officers, but make it available to local authorities and agencies responsible for checks its results to go in search of the cause of contamination. “For yet another year we find ourselves in a situation report about the purification of waste water that has become embarrassing and that is remedied once and for all. – Declares Giorgio Zampetti , scientific director of Legambiente -. In this emergency situation is always responds the same way: postponing the problem and trying to plug the holes of a system ineffective in the three summer months to appease the anger of bathers and tourists. In the South, then, the damage you are going to join the prank. It may, in fact, losing 1.7 billion euro of well CIPE funds for the construction and adjustment of systems that are due to expire in December. As if that were not enough, in addition, we also prepare to make citize ns pay fines Italian millionaire by the European Union for the inability to manage the cycle of waste water. Money that could instead be invested to open new sites for purification. Achieving efficient and modern – concludes Zampetti – must become a priority in Italian politics. It is yet another shame that this country does not deserve. It is no longer just to defend rivers and seas, a true great asset of this nation, but leaves the entire national economy, much of which is based on tourism. ” Among other things, very often mouths of streams and rivers are enjoyed by bathers which still is not guaranteed correct information. Of the total foci and channels results polluted and heavily polluted by Green Schooner, 40% is declared bathing waters from the Portal of the Ministry of Health. 35% of the points taken into analysis, moreover, are not completely sampled by the authorities although often these traits, yet in correspondence of foci an d canals, are still frequented by bathers. Why, it is imperative that the authorities introduce or intensify controls in the vicinity of these possible sources of pollution. Instead, the sea area defined by the portal as bathing for reasons of pollution, are missing in 18% of cases the signs prohibiting swimming. In terms of information in Italy is still struggling to take off a truly integrated system between the various agencies to provide clear information (the Harp performing sampling, regions and municipalities define the areas used for bathing, municipalities, based on the data , should affix signs of quality and / or a swimming ban, Portal of the waters that should put all the information in the network). Yet, the European Directive on bathing discipline clearly the communication and exchange with citizens. Despite this, to date, is not provided to the citizens a “guide” to report situations of pollution and require, therefore, that such situations be deep ened by the proper authorities. And ‘maybe that’s why this summer, Legambiente has received more than 200 reports from the service of SOS Green Schooner as well as dozens and dozens of phone calls.
Into It’s not just the bad treatment to put at risk the health of our seas and coasts. This is why Legambiente this year, at the conclusion of his historic campaign, presents the dossier “You crimes under the umbrella. The yellow of August. “ You are crimes that tinge of yellow summer Italian, perpetrated under the eyes of all. Many guilty one victim: our sea. Seas and coasts Italian finished in the viewfinder of six killer: maladepurazione, oil extraction, illegal construction, land use coastal pollution from large ships and military activities. “Compared to the classics of yellow this time to discover the murderess will not be needed twists. The killers of our seas have an identikit precise – said Stefano Ciafani , vice president of Legambiente -. Crimes committed without distinction and without convictions throughout the peninsula. A yellow apparently outcome for granted, but which highlights the variety of attacks that are undergoing the waters of rivers and seas, the coast, the sea bed. An assault to the marine ecosystem and unprecedented river that goes dall’assente or bad treatment, the infamous national energy choice to focus more on oil or to never pay illegal and concrete industry. It’s time to put an end to this massacre. It is not enough the mere statement of principles, but need a common strategy for ensuring the protection and restoration of our ecosystems, while ensuring the ecological correctness of economic activities linked to the marine environment. Regions, municipalities and provinces, as well as the central government, are called to a choice of field without delay is that will finally start to the much-vaunted green new deal . “
Into The maladepurazione is acting undisturbed from north to south of the Peninsula. From Domitian Coast Flegreo , where is compromising irreversibly one of the mo st beautiful stretches of coastline bell. Then there are Molfetta and the coast between Bari and Barletta : here is worrying the state faced by the plants. A Crotone in the high and Ionian Calabrese were seized several plants for errors and poor management. This is not news nor the return of the “killer” in the province of Reggio Calabria and in particular for the mouths of the rivers Mesima, Menga and Petrace. Not be better to Palermo : the capital of the region is part of Commons implicated in the condemnation of the European Court of Justice for non-compliance of the directive on the treatment of municipal wastewater. The murderess was again this year also marked the mouth of the Tiber . Pure in Brands the crime scenes favorites are the mouths of the rivers mouths sampled eight out of ten this year were heavily polluted. In Ferrara moves to the Po Delta in Comacchio . A stretch of sea, among other things, also affected by intensive fish deaths. The oil extraction represent the other defendant excellent : sott’accusa to croaker sea and in ‘ central and southern Adriatic as well as in Ionian Sea and the Strait of Sicily . The onslaught of new drills from the oil companies is unabated. A hunt is open to new fields, despite the contrary opinion of citizens, associations and local and regional authorities themselves and the ridiculous amount in the game that would run out in a few weeks. Into Vecchio, but defiant and never subdued the “cement illegal” . The illegal construction remains a scourge mainly in southern Italy. We report three “crime scenes.” Triscina, in the province of Trapani, marina, Castelvetrano, with over 5 thousand illegal houses wins the absolute record of advancing the concrete. Here no one has ever seen the shadow of a bulldozer. Ischia and the province of Salerno deliver postcards abuse with sea view. To finish with a holiday abusive to Tower Miletus, in Lesina (FG), set chosen in the ’70s by vacationers abusive for the construction of an entire coastal village completely illegal. Into The coastal land use was relentless in his work of destruction, out of 8 regions taken under consideration by Legambiente (Veneto, Emilia Romagna, Marche, Abruzzo, Molise, Sicily, Campania and Lazio) on 1,800 km of coastline, more than 55% is irreversibly transformed by urbanization and infrastructure. The crime scenes identified between the province of Teramo and Pescara , where only 9 per cent of the falls in a protected area; between Rome and Latina , where not only is irreversibl y transformed the landscape in favor of bathing establishments, often “locked”, but where walls and fences have concealed the view of the sea; between Imperia and Ospedaletti , victims the mockery of gigantism port.The dock also end the “Big ships.” Not only Giglio Island , where the giant of the tragedy is still there and no one is able to say when (and if …) the Concordia will be moved, but also in the Venice Lagoon where the floating cities continue to pass the imposing San Marco canal to offer tourists the thrill of touching the bell tower world’s most famous.
Into The Sardinia is instead under the failure of contamination and remediation to be completed due to military activities: former military arsenal de La Maddalena , and polygon Quirra in Ogliastra where military activities continue to damage the environment and health.
Into This year Mandatory Consortium of Used Oil was Main Partner of the historic summer campaign of Legambiente. “The defense of the environment, and the sea in particular, represents one of the cornerstones of our action,” said Antonio Mastrostefano, Head of Communication of the COOU. The oil used is what is recovered at the end of the life cycle of lubricants in industrial machinery, but also in cars, boats and agricultural vehicles of every citizen. “If removed incorrectly – said Mastrostefano – this hazardous waste can damage the environment so serious: 4 pounds of used oil, the transmission of a car, if paid in sea pollute an area as big as six Olympic swimming pools.” In contact with water, lubricating oil creates a thin coating that prevents the flora and fauna below to breathe. “With our communication activities – concluded Mastrostefano – we try to change the misbehavior of those who believe that small amounts of lubricating oil released into the environment cause little pollution.”
RESULTS OF ANALYSIS OF SCHOONER GREEN 2013 (carried out between 11 June and 8 August)The images of the crimes
The Scientific monitoringInto Sampling and analysis of Green Schooner are performed by the team of biologists from Legambiente that anticipates the boat trip aboard a mobile laboratory equipped. The samples for microbiological analyzes were collected in sterile jars and stored in the refrigerator until analysis, which takes place in the mobile laboratory on the same day of sampling or in any case within 24 hours of collection. The parameters investigated are microbiological (intestinal enterococci, Escherichia coli) and physico-chemical (water temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, conductivity / salinity). The chemical analyzes are carried out directly in situ with the aid of field instrumentation. The number of samples taken is defined in proportion to the miles of coastline in each region.
LEGENDInto Referring to the limit values ??prescribed by the regulations on bathing waters in force in Italy (Legislative Decree 116/2008 and the implementing decree of 30 March 2010) the opinions are expressed on the basis of the following:
CONTAMINATED = Intestinal Enterococci more than 200 CFU/100 ml and / or Escherichia coli more than 500 UFC/100ml
heavily polluted = Intestinal Enterococci more than 400 CFU/100 ml and / or Escherichia coli more than 1,000 CFU/100 ml
Green Schooner is a campaign of Legambiente
Main partners : COOU
Technical partners : Corepla, Nau, the factory, Solbian
Media Partners : The New Ecology, PescaTv – Sky channel 236, Rinnovabili.it
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