Andrés Pedreño, regional deputy, explained that this hierarchy of action in the measures must be based on public health risks.
This order of priorities must be part of an urgent intervention plan in the area of ​​contaminated soils of Cerro de San Cristóbal that also includes environmental restoration and landscape integration in this area.
Pedreño explained that the government of the PP once again shows "absence of planning and improvisation, since it has begun with a mining raft, the San Cristobal, in Mazarrón, which is not one of the most urgent. that there is a solvent and consensual technical project with the population ".
What we demand is to establish a hierarchy of priorities for action leading to the decontamination of those mining sites closest to the urban core of Mazarrón, "which is being affected by the immission of these toxic and hazardous waste with a very high concentration of heavy metals. "
The Deputy of Podemos has detailed that this Plan must define all actions and necessary measures to achieve the correct environmental restoration, as well as economic valuation, implementation calendar and definition of the competence areas of all agents or agencies affected.
Cristina Navarro, of the Circle We can in Mazarrón, has wanted to make clear that before the neighborhood conflict that has occurred in the town, We can ask for measures of integration in the landscape for what will have to be taken into account "that can not be decontextualized from the elements that make up the historical mining heritage in the area of ​​the Cultural Interest Good of Cerro San Cristóbal and Los Perules, trying to recreate the intervened spaces ".
Likewise, Andrés Pedreño recalled that the mining rafts on the hill of Mazarrón, due to their proximity, could be "poisoning the population and that is why it is a priority to apply measures to guarantee public health." The Ministry of Health, the Environment and A Education that extends the protective measures to the population due to contamination by heavy metals to Mazarrón ".
Pedreño has emphasized that the first thing to be to adopt precautionary measures in schools such as La Cañadica and IES Felipe II as well as recreational areas, common and children's game located a few meters from the vicinity of the old deposits of toxic and dangerous residues from the metallic mining of sulfides and the soils potentially contaminated by them.
Finally, Podemos demands, among other measures, to open spaces for social participation in the community health of the populations of Mazarrón, including the functioning of area and area health councils, for the design of risk prevention measures for health, as well as health planning and evaluation.
Source: Podemos Región de Murcia