Friday, March 29

Let’s save the Guadiana calls for more control of gravel in the river


José Manuel Rodríguez and Juan Fernando Delgado point out plastic spills in the river. / C. MORENO

There are areas where it is allowed to fill the banks with inert debris, but they denounce that they are mixed with plastics and iron and that they destroy the vegetation.

The Save the Guadiana association has filed a complaint with Seprona and another with the Hydrographic Confederation. They demand control in the dumping of rubble on the banks of the river. They denounce that this practice, authorized in certain areas, is not being carried out according to regulations and also has a serious impact on the banks of the Guadiana and the riparian vegetation.

The law allows companies to be authorized to dump recycled rubble, that is, clean and ground, to fill certain areas. They are usually covered with earth and that area can be replanted and recovered. However, from Salvemos el Guadiana they consider that these practices are not beneficial when they invade the banks of the river and denounce that, if the gravel is not completely clean, the contamination reaches the river.

The association has called for more control of this activity. Specifically, they allege that a branch of the Guadiana upstream from Las Baldocas, near the district of Gévora, is being filled with recycled rubble.

The group in defense of the river has filed complaints with Seprona and the Hydrographic Confederation

Juan Fernando Delgado, spokesman for Salvemos el Guadiana, has been in charge of presenting the complaints to the Civil Guard and the CHG. “They have told me that, if there is something irregular, they will study it and Seprona is also aware of it.”

“We believe that the waste transformers would have to put inert material and, even if it is covered with earth, here there are plastics, jugs, pipes and everything.”

Delgado explains that, with permission, companies can dump or fill spaces with recycled rubble, but it must be completely inert, that is, clean rubble, since any type of contamination, such as plastics and metal, can be a problem where those remains end up. , in this case, in the river.

“Inert is that it doesn’t have plastic waste, iron or other crap because otherwise it goes into the river.”

In addition, Save the Guadiana considers that it is unnecessary for the discharges to be carried out on the banks. “We think they are invading the riverbed,” laments Juan Fernando Delgado.

Another impact that these discharges have is that, when the earth is poured, the trees that grow on the riverbank are split. In some cases they are eucalyptus, but in others they are native species. “It is not normal that if you cut a twig they denounce you and here they are throwing down native trees that, as you can see, are piled up,” denounces José Manuel Rodríguez, from the Save Association in Guadiana.

Rodríguez points out the different species that can be seen cut up among the piles of gravel. «There is a broken black poplar there, a weeping willow that there are two or three broken, also white poplar. They are destroying them », he explains.

It harms biodiversity

“So much that we are with animals and biodiversity, there you have it. They are loading the biodiversity of this area. Then they tell you that they are afraid of doing selective dredging in Badajoz (to eliminate invasive species from the bottom of the river) and they tell you that you can’t dredge because of the biodiversity. I do not think it is because that”.

From Salvemos el Guadiana they detail that the area upstream from Las Baldocas where spills are taking place has a branch that is not natural. It was produced about 50 years ago by the extraction of aggregates. «Now it seems that they want to blind him, but unduly. It can be blinded, but with inert material and taking care of the area».

The association has officially asked the Guadiana Hydrographic Confederation and Seprona to carry out tastings in the areas filled with gravel to verify that the materials used are inert and that there are no plastics and other contaminants, as they claim.

Recently this association has also filed a complaint for illegal dumping after detecting abandoned asbestos next to the river near the town of Barbaño.


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