The Farmoplant nightmare returns to Massa Carrara, the latest analyzes by the Ministry of the Environment show poisons in the water and in the area citizens continue to get cancer.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himThe Farmoplant nightmare returns to Massa Carrara, the latest analyzes by the Ministry of the Environment highlight poisons in the water and in the area citizens continue to get cancer.
Metals and hydrocarbons that exceed the permitted values by a thousand times. Despite thirty years have passed since the dismantling of Farmoplant and the explosion of the chemical industry, the poisons continue to poison the aquifer in the industrial area of Massa Carrara.
On July 17, 1988, the chemical industry exploded and a toxic cloud he had poisoned the whole area with arsenic, benzene, hexavalent chromium, chlorinated solvents, trichloromethane and tetrachlorethylene, manganese, later found in high concentrations in the water. In a few hours, over more than two thousand square kilometers, from La Spezia to Forte dei Marmi, a black cloud had spread.
Today the data collected in 149 wells in Massa and Carrara on behalf of Sogesid (an in-house company of the Ministry) in the Arpat laboratories do not tell us anything good. Those poisons are still there and they are right there, where people live and work.
“The analytical data attest to the overcoming of the pollution limits of groundwater mainly in correspondence with the disused industrial areas”, reads the press release of Arpat Toscana.
Among the poisons present there are ammonia, pesticides, arsenic, benzene, vinyl chloride, chromium, total hydrocarbons, manganese, paraxylene, pcb, sulphates and zinc. Hexavalent chromium, for example, in some wells is present in percentages from 12 to 42 milligrams per liter when the legal limit is 0,2.
Now environmentalists are calling for the immediate closure of the wells and the start of reclamation.
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Dominella Trunfio
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