“Possible enormous environmental damage” – Telesveva Notizie

Over 8 thousand cubic meters of special waste, much of which is dangerous, buried in a Murgia Alta quarry in the Altamura area. This is the discovery of the Carabinieri Forestry Group of Bari carried out together with the Carabinieri Department of the Alta Murgia National Park and the Carabinieri of Altamura, in an area of ​​particular environmental value. The military seized the entire area of ​​approximately 9 hectares, together with seven trucks used for the illicit transport of the material. Overall there are nine people under investigation who will have to answer for dumping and burial inside the special waste quarry. Four companies were also involved. The Carabinieri have reconstructed at least 400 trips made in less than a year by the seized heavy vehicles. According to investigations, illicit dumping of materials took place in that quarry every day. Waste mostly deriving from building demolition, systematically hidden and buried. The nine subjects are being investigated in conjunction with each other for the crimes of environmental pollution, operation of illegal landfill, falsification of documents, illicit management and unauthorized mixing of waste. As for the companies involved, they will have to answer for an administrative offence. The illegal dumping of waste would have caused, the police explain, “enormous environmental damage due to the compromise and deterioration of the site”.