Schooner sea green Italian increasingly polluted badly Sicily – Palermomania.it

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 There is a point of polluted sea every 62 kilometers of coastline. The warning is the mobile laboratory of Green Schooner, which analyzed 266 water samples and found, in 45% of cases, bacterial loads exceeding the limits of the law.

 The data, after those related to offenses on the coasts, while promoting Sardinia slam Sicily, but also the Marche and Abruzzo. The main problems were found only in correspondence of the mouths of rivers or canals.

 In Sicily, more than half of the monitored (14 of 26), were polluted or heavily polluted. In particular, in the province of Palermo, the only point at which the controls were positive, within limits, is the Tonnara Bordonaro to the Virgin Mary, while polluted or heavily polluted were the outlets of rivers and canals at the Banned, Dam forenea Terrasini, Termini Imerese and Carini.

 Few problems for regions bordering sull’Adratico, while the most critical situations were reported along the coasts of Marche and Abruzzo, also penalized by the high number of waterways, canals and ditches that flow into the sea. On the whole, half of the 120 points located at polluted beaches, almost always free.

 49% of the points, said the association, is not sampled by the competent authorities, that is not subjected to health checks, and 38% is swimming on the Portal of the Waters of the Ministry of Health, while only 14 points are banned for bathing. “ The pollution detected by Green Schooner is essentially caused by discharges purified through rivers, ditches and small canals are poured directly into the sea. A direct consequence of the lack of a proper sewage treatment, which still covers 42% of sewage in our country , “said Giorgio Zampetti, scientific director of Legambiente.

Palermomania.it – ​​News programming recorded at the Court of Palermo n ° 15 del 27/04/2011